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Speaker 1: another's three hour extravaganza coming your way this afternoon. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Taskers on the line. Our producer Jay

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Speaker 1: Harris is with us radio only again today. For a

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Speaker 1: radio show and happy to have you with us. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Steve tesk are you doing today? Good Murph, good talking

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Speaker 1: much to my chagrin, this radio show starting to be

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Speaker 1: We're here to do the show. That's why we're here. Hey, um,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about a variety of stuff today.

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Speaker 1: We got three good guests today. Sam Motson from Pro

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Speaker 1: Football Focus we says the Bills have the best white

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Speaker 1: talk with former agency sports analyst Joel Corey. He's coming

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Speaker 1: Connect Life at two thirty about blood donations. But I

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Speaker 1: do want to start with this Steve and this came,

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Speaker 1: I guess this morning when I woke up the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the NFL. It happened yesterday. The NFL says it will

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Speaker 1: start it's twenty twenty season on time in September, despite

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Speaker 1: not be necessary. So they're pushing ahead the draft of course,

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Speaker 1: you can plan it that way, and I don't have

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Speaker 1: Monson joined us at one today. He Steve, did you

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Speaker 1: see this coming out? You're up late texting people at

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Speaker 1: ten thirty at night? Do you see this coming up?

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Speaker 1: Last night? Emmanuel Sanders heard from the Bills back before

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Speaker 1: they landed Stefan Diggs. Did you see that? Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was talked to him. Yeah, that's what the report is

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, who wound up with Green Bay. Um said,

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Speaker 1: I here's the quote. I spoke with the Bills for

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Speaker 1: a little bit. I told them, let me think about

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Speaker 1: the idea, give me a night. Thirty minutes later, the

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs deal went through, and I was like, okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. I liked that.

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Speaker 1: I mean the Bills were pretty active and aggressive. This

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Speaker 1: is now, what three weeks ago, Monday night when the

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Speaker 1: DIGS trade was made, and he recalled we talked about

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Speaker 1: this a little bit last week. The I think it

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Speaker 1: was your KINGO did the work on how quickly the

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Speaker 1: DIGS deal came together that Monday night. You know, the

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Speaker 1: the deal was done by you know, an hour or

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Speaker 1: so later. I mean, that's indicative of how aggressive and

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Speaker 1: wide super problem. I don't have a problem with them

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Speaker 1: talking to Emmanuel Sanders. I'm glad that you know, they

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Speaker 1: were exploring a couple of options and they went the

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Speaker 1: DIGS route. I think that's okay. I'm with you. This

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Speaker 1: is one more time when and I've said it a ton,

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Speaker 1: But in years passing on other teams and in decades

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Speaker 1: passed with other general managers, not just with the Bills,

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Speaker 1: but everywhere around the league. You never knew the back workings.

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Speaker 1: You never we never had a chance to find out

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Speaker 1: who was really interested in whatever guy right. It was

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Speaker 1: always kind of behind, you know, we'd come out, we'd

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Speaker 1: see the traders like, oh wow, well it's interesting. Why

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Speaker 1: weren't we interested? You know, you always saw why didn't

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Speaker 1: our guy do that? Well, more and more we're finding

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Speaker 1: out that if there's a guy out there, Brandon Bean's

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Speaker 1: picking up the phone, I don't care who it is.

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Speaker 1: He did it with Khalil Mack, he did it with

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Speaker 1: mean everybody. It does. It doesn't matter whether they're whether

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Speaker 1: they have no shot at us wanting them or not.

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Speaker 1: They always kicked the tires and find out what the

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Speaker 1: if there's a time when the when the Bills, you know,

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Speaker 1: or whatever, it's not because they didn't check it out.

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Speaker 1: It's because they didn't want to or because they were

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Speaker 1: that Brandon Bean and these guys they check everything out.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like we ever feel like we never

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Speaker 1: had a chance in that negotiation. Well we may have

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Speaker 1: didn't like the terms, or they didn't like the guy. Whatever,

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Speaker 1: they did check it out. And I think that's a

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Speaker 1: confidence of most Bills fans up until this general manager

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Speaker 1: didn't always have yep Sanders. I mean, I guess, I

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Speaker 1: guess they said he went to Green Bay. He went

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Speaker 1: to New Orleans Saints actually a two year deal worth

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Speaker 1: about nineteen million dollars, talk to the packers, talk to

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Speaker 1: the forty nine, and eventually as a free agent, decided

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Speaker 1: to sign with the Saints. And I think that's good

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Speaker 1: to GM work by Brandon being good shit in start

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Speaker 1: talking to him and you know, five thirty at night,

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Speaker 1: Oh what's this trade comes up for Stefan Dick's let's

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Speaker 1: jump into that. I think that's pretty good GM work

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Speaker 1: by the Bills. I agree completely. I do you gotta

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Speaker 1: and have it come together. It also means that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are nimble enough to jump on it and get

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Speaker 1: it done without saying, well, you know what, I gotta call.

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Speaker 1: I gotta call Terry Pagoula, I gotta call you know,

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Speaker 1: I gotta call Sean McDermot. I got. It's great that

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Speaker 1: the Bills organization is nimble enough if something like this

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Speaker 1: comes up, they don't have to, you know, run it

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Speaker 1: up the flagpole. They don't have to. I'm sure they did,

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Speaker 1: and maybe that's why it took one hour. But still

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Speaker 1: to have that access and be nimble enough to make

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Speaker 1: a deal like this come together with all those draft

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Speaker 1: picks on both sides, you know, their draft pick and

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Speaker 1: their player and are what three draft picks um. I

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Speaker 1: think it's pretty cool that it can come together that fast.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about that deal. We can talk about

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Speaker 1: Sanders digs, the fact that the Bills talk about Emmanuel Sanders.

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Speaker 1: We can talk about the NFL sticking to its plan

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Speaker 1: of starting the season on schedule be scheduled itself by

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Speaker 1: the way, around May ninth, which is a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks delayed. May ninth is said to be the target

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Speaker 1: date possibly for the schedule release. That of course subject

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Speaker 1: to change. And our Twitter poll today, and our Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll is not a poll, it's a question the underrated

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Speaker 1: moves made by the Bills so far here in the offseason.

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Speaker 1: What's the most underrated move? Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty to talk about any or

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Speaker 1: all of that, and we will do that when we

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Speaker 1: come back after this first break. We also will check

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Speaker 1: some of the tweet sheets we've got at one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We've got joke. No, we got Sam Monson from PFF

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Speaker 1: coming up at one o'clock, So come on back. We're

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Speaker 1: just getting started. One Bills Line presented by It's a

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills read Welcome back down, Murphy, Steve Tansker

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Speaker 1: were home today, not in the Seneca studio in Orchard Park,

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Speaker 1: but I'm on Park. Steves in his home in East

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Speaker 1: Our producer Jay Harris on the line from his home

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Speaker 1: here for three hours here until three o'clock today with

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It officially, I

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Speaker 1: declare it now, Steve, it is the new normal doing

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Speaker 1: the show like this, right it is. And I don't

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Speaker 1: know how we're gonna go back to going to the studio.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about it last night. I know we

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Speaker 1: got it. I will say this though, it's strange that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we you gotta work. We like was like

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Speaker 1: three tuesdays ago, right, um? Three or maybe yes, three

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Speaker 1: tuesdays ago is our last show in the studio, and

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Speaker 1: you know you go in there every day. We see

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Speaker 1: our peeps, you know. I mean, we got like a

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Speaker 1: whole crew, and now I haven't I have laid eyes

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Speaker 1: on any of them except you and Jay for coming

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Speaker 1: on a month now, and I do miss that together

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Speaker 1: every day. Yep. Yeah, you can't get together with anybody. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean we got to digitally anyway, get online with

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Speaker 1: all of them. I think yeah we should, we should, Jay,

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Speaker 1: will you put that together? Please? Seriously? Right, we can

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Speaker 1: do it a zoom or what do you call it?

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Speaker 1: A Google? You and your family, you and your kids,

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Speaker 1: You staying home watching your kids. You have nothing else

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Speaker 1: to do, so I want you to, you know, jump

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Speaker 1: on that. Let's do it. Shoot, I'll do it today. Hey,

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Speaker 1: our Twitter question today it's a simple one. It's not

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Speaker 1: a poll. Let's been the most underrated move the Bills

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Speaker 1: have made so far this offseason. The phone lines wide

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Speaker 1: open eight three five fifteen and toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Give us a call,

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Speaker 1: tell us what you think. Let's go to the tweet sheet,

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. The most underrated move the Bills

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Speaker 1: have made this offseason from Jack Anderson. He says the

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Speaker 1: most underrated move is signing Quentin Jefferson, the guy they

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Speaker 1: signed from Seattle. The guy has solid numbers against both

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Speaker 1: to run in the past, the advanced stats people love,

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Speaker 1: and the impact he's had. He's still young, will fit

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Speaker 1: into the rotation well, and they give him. They gave

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Speaker 1: him a little bit of a term for a modest

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Speaker 1: paid date. That's a that's a that's notable. You're right,

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Speaker 1: and it's an interesting move they made. Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 1: And that's most of these as like like all of

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Speaker 1: us do. Most of these are projecting best case scenario.

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Speaker 1: You know, if Quintin Jefferson comes in and plays well,

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Speaker 1: we don't know how any of the new guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna play. We don't have anybody's gonna play, but there's

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Speaker 1: no question if you look at their pass. Quint Jefferson's

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Speaker 1: going to be a nice edition. That was off the

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Speaker 1: radar for a lot of Bills fans because you know,

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Speaker 1: he was on in the other conference on the other coast.

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Speaker 1: You don't see him play very much. He's a defensive tackle,

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Speaker 1: so he kind of stays off the radar anyway. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, even Bills fans have a hard time quantifying

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Speaker 1: what Star Lotulelee does and he's one of the highest,

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Speaker 1: if not the highest paid player on the team. So

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Speaker 1: signing Quintin Jefferson, if he comes in and has an impact,

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Speaker 1: people will be like, wow, genius moves. So you're right,

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's right, and it's exactly the kind

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Speaker 1: of move we're looking for today for people to think about. Um.

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Speaker 1: If Wuinn Jefferson has a big impact, mirth, people are

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Speaker 1: gonna go back and say, Wow, how how they get him?

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Speaker 1: Like a deal like that? Right? So I agree with it.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a good one from Jack Anderson. Tiffany

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Speaker 1: coach Frasier will have a huge impact on a season

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Speaker 1: that will be unlike any in the history of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: His strength and leadership. I'm sorry, I kind of I'm

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Speaker 1: huge asset working side by side with coach mcdee, guiding

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Speaker 1: the players through the uncharted waters and preparing for the

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Speaker 1: upcoming season. Yeah, and I didn't mean to chuckle. I

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Speaker 1: thought she meant this season, right. I thought she meant,

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Speaker 1: you know, Bills are going twenty and zero. You know,

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna score a point on him? What I thought?

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Speaker 1: Then I forgot We're sitting in the middle of a pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I think that's what she meant. Yeah, I do, And

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Speaker 1: I think she's right. I think she makes a good point.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of questions. Let's say they

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Speaker 1: come back to work for training camp last week of July.

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Speaker 1: Guys are going to be lost. Rookies in particular, who

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Speaker 1: and the rookie workouts they do. They're gonna be lost.

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Speaker 1: It will it will help the Bills a lot to

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Speaker 1: have a guy, not just Leslie Frasier, but Frasier now

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Speaker 1: say the NFL is ready to go, and the teams

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks before the first preseason game. That'll

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Speaker 1: be their first time together. Steve and I think it'll

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Speaker 1: in the same place for a couple of years, like

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier. I think that will help a lot. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: won't help them. The players are the team to improve,

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Speaker 1: out of a hole like so many teams doing how

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00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: this team has had to do in years pass in

639
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: decades past, where you're always trying to climb back in it,

640
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: you know, and you start playing well. So I'm totally

641
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: with you, Murphy if it helps this team get off

642
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: to a really fast start, giving the schedule they're gonna play,

643
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 1: and the teams are gonna face in the division, they're

644
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: gonna play face out of conference. Man, oh man, there's

645
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: you can't put a price on it. And I think

646
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: it's huge. I think it's really huge. One more from

647
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet at this point from Anthony Talks, he

648
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: says the most underrated move the Bills are made this

649
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: offseason is the acquisition of defensive and Mary o' addison.

650
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: He instantly became our best pass thresher. He says, you

651
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: might be you know, Jerry Hues last time to say

652
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: about that, and some others as well, but he might

653
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: be at least one of the best pass rushers on

654
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: the roster, and he could be an important addition Steven

655
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: especially this year. Maybe not long term because of his age,

656
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: but especially this year. He could have a lot to

657
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: say about how much success the Bills will have. Addison's

658
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: the one he's had nine and a half sacks for

659
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: the last four years in a row, and that's big.

660
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: We lost Jordan Phillips, who had nine and a half

661
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: sacks in a career year. We got a guy who

662
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: does it every year now, and plus two other guys

663
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: that will help him. Yeah, I'm totally with him. I

664
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: think I think Mario Addison is going to be a

665
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch him play in a Bill's uniform.

666
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: And I think the guy who's going to be most

667
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: happy that Mario Addison arrived is Jerry Hughes. And I

668
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: think that's that's gonna be a big, a big addition

669
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: and maybe a subtle change in the philosophy of how

670
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: offenses will face our defense. Yep. So what do you

671
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: think the big the most underrated move the Bills have made?

672
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: Give us a call on that or anything else you'd

673
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: like to discuss. Got open fall lines here for the

674
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: rest of this hour, anyway, eight three fifty toll free

675
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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Here's

676
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: a call from Mike in Rochester. Hello, Mike, you're on

677
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: the year. Hey, guys, how you doing great? Good? Good?

678
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: So I have an idea and Stevie were talking about

679
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: like the expansion of going to eight teams and how

680
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: you might you thought it might not work or it

681
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: would be too even, but I think it would add

682
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: a premium if that you'd give a double buye to

683
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: the top two teams and then three and four would

684
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: get the single buy So five, six, seven, eight would

685
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: play in the first round. I'll a wild card round,

686
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: So it would add more of a premium than this

687
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: sevent team playoff. For man, what do you guys think?

688
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: And I'll hang up in this listen, No, yes, before

689
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: you hang up, Like, what you're proposing is what four

690
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: walking games as opposed to six? Is that what you're

691
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: talking about? I guess he's done. Yea, yeah, I think

692
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: he's talking about fewer playoff games. And let's face it,

693
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: the motivation for the league, Steve as they have more

694
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: playoff games and that fewer, right, and he he just

695
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,919
Speaker 1: wants to give teams a reward with a bye week,

696
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: and the top two teams would wait out the wild

697
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: card and then the divisional round, and then they would

698
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: come back in for the last two rounds of I guess, uh,

699
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 1: there'd be four rounds of playoffs, right, Uh? Four games

700
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,160
Speaker 1: in each conference, except that there would only be two

701
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: games every weekend. Um, so I don't know, I two

702
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: games in each conference. So yeah, he's talking about giving

703
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: the top seed in the conference, or maybe the top

704
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 1: two seeds two buys. Yeah, and then the second two

705
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: seeds one buy and then the bottom four teams would

706
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: play have playing games to get there, you know, And

707
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's a lot of weekends. One problem is

708
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: the fact that the season would take an extra half

709
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: a month or to get through in the playoffs, which

710
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: I don't think and you're right, Murph, it's just I

711
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:10,879
Speaker 1: guess it's the same amount of games, but it would

712
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: be over more weekends. There'd also be this problem. I

713
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: think if you're a top two team, you're sitting out

714
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: two weeks, what the first two weeks of January you

715
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: sit on the sidelines and watch other teams play that kid,

716
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: I mean that. I'm not a I know there's a

717
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: value to rest, but that can't be a benefit to

718
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: those teams steve to be on the sidelines for two weeks.

719
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: It would certainly be a challenge to handle it well right, yeah,

720
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: I mean goodness, greatly for two weeks off. You know,

721
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: most players would you know, most players would trade you

722
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: their house to get two weeks off at the end

723
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: of the season, right, I mean they're done, So yeah,

724
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big incentive, But it would also be

725
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: a huge challenge to do it right and come back sharp,

726
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: hit the field sharp after the two weeks were up.

727
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: So and that and it, let's face, it wouldn't be

728
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 1: two weeks. It would be two weekends, which is like

729
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: three weeks before you play. So that's that's a long

730
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: long time. I think it's too much. What do you

731
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: think the most underrated move the Bills have made in

732
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,839
Speaker 1: the top season? Give us a call eight oh three

733
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: oh five fifty twelve three one eight eight eight five

734
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty from Anthony. He says the resigning

735
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: to Quentin Spain is the most underrated move. Continuity is

736
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: a big part of what makes an offensive mind. Gel

737
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: To get Spain on a cheap deal is big for

738
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: our offensive mind moving forward, and it was a deal

739
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: that needed to happen, all right, I could be persuaded

740
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: that way. I would say that I think they'd led

741
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: to get better than they would last year on the

742
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,439
Speaker 1: offensive line then includes Quentin Spain, don't you a greasy Yeah.

743
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: I'm all about getting better, but I am Listen, at

744
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: least they're not going to get worse, barring injury. At

745
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: least those guys are going to come back and be

746
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: as good as they were a year ago. At least

747
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: you feel like you can count on that. But I

748
00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: am all for having a dominant offense line. I would

749
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: love them to go out and I think this Darryl

750
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 1: Williams that they got from Carolina may add a little

751
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: bit of high quality depth or competition to get on

752
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: the field and start. That's good. I think it's a

753
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: good thing. You need an offensive line, union offensive line

754
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 1: that can dominate. Josh gets better, and if Josh gets better,

755
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: the team gets better and the offensive line, because is big,

756
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: is as big an addition. If you can upgrade the

757
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: offensive line for the Buffalo Bills and they become a

758
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: dominant offensive line, this becomes a team that is as

759
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: good as any in the league. In my opinion, it

760
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: really is as any in the league. If that offensive

761
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: line comes back and they're better than they were a

762
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: year ago with whoever has to sit down and plug

763
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: another guy in, if they have to switch parts out

764
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: or whatever. If they come back, and this is an

765
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: offensive line that dominates this Team's this team, there's no

766
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: stopping it, I think, because I think it all starts

767
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 1: up front, and that goes for the defense too. If

768
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: these new additions come in and they played good or better,

769
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: and Harrison Phillips comes back full full, full go, this

770
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: is a team that has gotten significantly better from a

771
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: team that was right on the cusp, you know, three

772
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: months ago. So I'm I'm all about it. I'm I

773
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: think Quentin Spain signing needed to happen, But I also

774
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: think that's just the tip of the iceberg as far

775
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 1: as how good they want to be up there. Um well,

776
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: I think Darryl Williams the only addition they made to

777
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: the offensive line, So I guess, yeah, but it might

778
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: be the same as last year. Maybe yeah. And I'll

779
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: tell you what, I thought, they were better. And he

780
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: used to look at the statistics. When Tye and Secky

781
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: was on the field at right tackle, the Bills scored

782
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: on almost on most of their drives. They scored a

783
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: touchdown on most of their drives. When he came off,

784
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,360
Speaker 1: as he had to a lot because he wasn't physically

785
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: one hundred percent all the time, they did not score

786
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: at the same rate. So you plug in a guy

787
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: like Daryl Darryl Williams and move Cody forward down inside,

788
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you're scoring touchdowns on most

789
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: of the drives that you have in a game. If

790
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: you can get back to that level, there you go, Murph,

791
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 1: that's what we've been talking. Get on the scoreboard. You're

792
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: assuming Titan Seki is ready to go start every game

793
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 1: play mostly well, even if he's not, you put Darryl

794
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: Williams in there, the guy they just signed from Carolina.

795
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: If he's a better tackle than Cody ford is, you

796
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: can move forward down inside. You're better yea about ifs there.

797
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. There's it is that. My point

798
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: is this, Yeah, the offensive line is where it all

799
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: starts for me and I you know, I'm going on

800
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: about it, but I'll stop. But yeah, Quentin Spain was

801
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: important because they won't get worse. But make no mistake,

802
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: they're trying to get better. There's gone from Noah in Buffalo,

803
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: go ahead and no where you're on the air. Um,

804
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: I wanted to say that I thought Isaiah McKenzie being

805
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: resigned as an underrated move um. He's been improving since

806
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: he's got here from Denver a couple of years ago.

807
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: He sits into the system really well. It seems like

808
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: Davel really likes him, and he even said that he

809
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: had offers some other teams and that he just wanted

810
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: to come back to Buffalo. So I think that speaks

811
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: a lot to the city and the camaraderie. And I

812
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: was wondering what you guys thought about that, and I'll

813
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: hang up and listen what we get A six. I

814
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: wonder Isaiah and Steve. I wonder if there's room for

815
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: Isaia McKenzie on the roster, you know, with the addition

816
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: to Diggs, And maybe I'm just saying if Robert Foster

817
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: develops or if they'd rather have Andre Roberts as a

818
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: return man. You start to wonder if there's there's room

819
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: for Isaiah McKenzie as much as he did last year,

820
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: which was considerable as versatility. You wonder if there's even

821
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: a room for him. What do you think? I think

822
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: they'll be room for him on the roster. No question,

823
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: there's always room for a really fast guy in a

824
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: league full of fast people, and it's hard to be

825
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: considered a fast guy in that environment, but he is

826
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie can really scoot. He gives him a dimension.

827
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: That's why no other caller noticed. Dave All likes him.

828
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: He played the third most snaps and had the third

829
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: most reps at that third wide receiver spot than anybody

830
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: that on the team. Murph he they he was on

831
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: the field a lot. So I think if you're doing

832
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: it by that metric, everybody below him fall. Somebody below

833
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: him falls off the roster. Isaiah McKenzie doesn't, even with

834
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,800
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs plugged in him up above him. So I

835
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: think that's I think he's right. I think day Ball

836
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 1: loves him. I think the speed is the reason. His

837
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: versatility of giving them getting the ball handed off to

838
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: him and taking the top off the defense. I think

839
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: that helps uh let me, I should There's no question

840
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to improve. I think, yeah, here's the

841
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: thing that's improvement is the question. You know the offense

842
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: was not good last year, right, even you know in

843
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs they struggle. How do you without except for

844
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,839
Speaker 1: marginal improvements saying group back, more cohesion on the offensive line,

845
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: where do you look for improvement to come on offense,

846
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: if not having better players and different guys, you know,

847
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: making a difference, you know what I mean. You can

848
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: bring the same guy back, there will be marginal improvement.

849
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: But I think they need more than marginal improvement on

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Speaker 1: the offense. Yeah, and it all comes back to Josh,

851
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Speaker 1: of course, because improvement by Josh's exponential at every place else. Right,

852
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Speaker 1: if he makes if if Josh makes five like four,

853
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: if he makes one more play per quarter, that keeps

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Speaker 1: them on the field when otherwise they would have been off,

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Speaker 1: They're exponentially better because everybody else gets more offer that

856
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Speaker 1: many more opportunities over the course of the season and

857
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Speaker 1: over the course of the game. It's just they're they're

858
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: just more harder to handle. So that improvement by Josh

859
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Speaker 1: will help everybody get better. But you're right, Murph, if

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Speaker 1: you want to get better that you can only do

861
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: it a couple of ways. You have to get better players,

862
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Speaker 1: or you have to have a scheme that uses the

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Speaker 1: players you have even better. I don't, and you know

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Speaker 1: what I feel about this. I've said for a long time,

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Speaker 1: Josh left a lot of plays on the field. If

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Speaker 1: they can get more efficient, if they can hit the

867
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Speaker 1: right guy make the reads faster. There's I mean, because

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00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, once in a while, Josh pre determines where

869
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw the football instead of playing football and

870
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: reading it out. Sometimes he just misses a throw. Sometimes

871
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 1: he just misses a guy open on the back side,

872
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: and he never gets to those plays. If Josh can

873
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Speaker 1: see them and make those throws where I know he

874
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: can make the throws. If he sees them and makes

875
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:28,399
Speaker 1: those decisions, this team is over a touchdown better next year.

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00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: And that's all it's going to take for them to

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Speaker 1: take a huge step forward in the playoffs. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got a break here, we're coming back. What's the

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Speaker 1: most underrated move the Bills have made this offseason? Give

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Speaker 1: us a call. Eight three fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. We're not in the Seneca studio again. We're

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome Backchat Mercy Chief Tasker one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: on the job. Here's here's a good answer to the

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Speaker 1: Twitter questions. See the most underrated move the Bills have

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Speaker 1: made this off season? This is on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: presented by Cargan Moving Systems swice as nice and at

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Speaker 1: this something we didn't think of. I think it's a

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00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: good one. He says the most underrated move is resigning

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer. Was on to say Poyer will be a

892
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: pro bowler. Seems like a guy that will not let

893
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: his foot off the gas after the pay day. If anything,

894
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: he'll be more motivated to really earn respect for himself

895
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: and the team improved pass rush that allowed Poyer and

896
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Speaker 1: Micah Hyde to feast on passes over the middle. Really

897
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: good point. We kind of glossed over it. But resigning

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer. We talked about Quentin Spain. Resigning Jordan Poyer.

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Speaker 1: So far, maybe maybe the underrated thing, maybe the most

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Speaker 1: important thing to move the Bills have made Dan and

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Speaker 1: Stephan Diggs maybe one and two as far as significant

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Speaker 1: moves the Bills have made this off season. Yeah, it's

903
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:58,399
Speaker 1: easy to the gloss over job one, right, Yeah, yeah,

904
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: the game right signed Trenavius White in the next month

905
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Speaker 1: or two. That will be an important and underrated move

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Right, kind of the same thing. Well, yeah,

907
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Speaker 1: because we all take it for granted that was gonna

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Speaker 1: be that was gonna happen anyway, you know. I guess

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the where you get to where you think, well,

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Speaker 1: of course, you know, but underrated. You're right, because you

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Speaker 1: look at the Houston Texans trading away a guy like

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Some teams don't do the obvious, you know. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: sometimes you don't. So there you go. You're He's right,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna. If you're gonna stay good, the first thing

915
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 1: you gotta do is keep the guys that made you

916
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: that way and then try and get better at places

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00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: where you can. But man, oh man, yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: good point. I gotta I gotta hand it to him.

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Speaker 1: He's good. Yeah. We signing Poyer was a big and

920
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Speaker 1: underrated move. The fact that we didn't even think of

921
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: it until swice Is nice pointed it out on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet makes it even more underrated. All right, one

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Speaker 1: hour of the books, when we come back. Sam Mounson

924
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: from Pro Football Focus, he has a stuff that says

925
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Speaker 1: the Bills, the Buffalo Bills have the best wide receiver

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Speaker 1: core group in the NFL. Huh. We'll talk with Sam

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Speaker 1: Monson or Pro Football Focus about that when we return.

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Speaker 1: Come on back one of those live presented by Kalida Health.

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Speaker 1: Coming to you from our homes again today this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills reading. Well, this got my attention. I have

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Speaker 1: to say pro football focused. Sam Monson, who with their

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Speaker 1: leading ANTL writer, wrote a post read at this morning,

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Speaker 1: says the Bills, the Buffalo Bills have the best wide

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Speaker 1: receiver core, the best wide receiver group in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Sam Monson is on the line with us. I believe Sam,

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Speaker 1: Are you there? Yep? I'm here. How's it going, guys? Good?

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Speaker 1: Not since the days of Andre Reid, James Lofton and

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Speaker 1: my partner Steve Tasker, as anybody thought the book the

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Speaker 1: best wide receiver cor in the NFL. What do you

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Speaker 1: think in there, Sam? Yeah? I mean I liked the

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Speaker 1: guys that they had brought in a year ago, Beasley

942
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Speaker 1: and John Brown. I think that they were getting the

943
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Speaker 1: right type of receiver. And then you bring in a

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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs and it just catapults that group to a

945
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Speaker 1: completely different level. And you know, I'd always kind of

946
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: thought that Stefon Diggs was a very good player anyway,

947
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Speaker 1: and just from diving into the research and his tay

948
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Speaker 1: to do this article If anything, my opinion of him

949
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: only went up. I mean, he is good at everything

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00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: you need to be a wide receiver. And if you

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00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: look at his production, the sort of the relative lack

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Speaker 1: of production compared with you know, superstars like Julio Jones

953
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Speaker 1: or DeAndre Hopkins or the guys at the very top

954
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Speaker 1: of the NFL list, I don't think the reason that

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Speaker 1: he's not at that level is anything due to him.

956
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: I think it's just because he's been in a run

957
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Speaker 1: first offense in Minnesota. You emerge kind of at the

958
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: same time as Adam Feelings, so they inherently you took

959
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: some targets and took some production away from each other.

960
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: But I think that you plug, you know, Stefon Diggs

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Speaker 1: into the same situation as those other guys and you

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00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: get pretty much the same results. Yeah, you made a

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00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: great point about one of the complaints that Steffon Diggs

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Speaker 1: had last year was the lack of targets. I mean,

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00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: he just didn't get the ball enough from Kirk Cousins.

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00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins an accurate thrower of the football, not the

967
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: rocket arm, not a huge arm like Josh Allen, but

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Speaker 1: it's going to be kind of a balance you kind

969
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: of expect. Your thought was that Steph Diggs might get

970
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: a lot more targets in Buffalo than he did in

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Speaker 1: the run first offense in Minnesota, but the quarterback throwing

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Speaker 1: him might be a little less accurate. So the net

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00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: the net give and take of that, going from fewer

974
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Speaker 1: targets and a more accurate quarterback to more targets and

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Speaker 1: a less accurate quarterback. Maybe what makes this step Dig

976
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: Diggs trade makes us able to evaluate it right, It's

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Speaker 1: going to be an interesting balance because you know, obviously

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Speaker 1: he grew frustrated with his time in Minnesota that the

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00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: ball just wasn't coming his way enough. But when the

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Speaker 1: ball did come his way, it tended to be pretty accurate.

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Speaker 1: And Cousins, you know through some absolute guyings to Diggs

982
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: over the past couple of seasons that a lot of

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00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: quarterback would not have made a lot of quarterbacks would

984
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: not have put the ball where it needed to go

985
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: and give Diggs a shot to make those catches. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Diggs was getting frustrated. Now I don't know

987
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: how much more or less frustrated he would be if

988
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: he got a lot more passes come his way, but

989
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: they didn't have the same level of accuracy. You know,

990
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: they asked a lot more of him, and it's going

991
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: to be interesting to watch. Does he get frustrated in

992
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo as well if the accuracy does become a problem

993
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: or is he is he happy with just being given

994
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: more opportunities, whether the ball is necessarily where it needs

995
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: to be or not. But I think the real key

996
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: thing that the Bills have done over the past two

997
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: years now is they've targeted receivers that specialize in getting separation,

998
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: and I think that is such a smart thing to

999
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: do in today's NFL. You know, we we sort we

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Speaker 1: look for when we're evaluating receivers. What should we be

1001
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: trying to identify as their single biggest trait? And for me,

1002
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: that's the key thing. You don't need to be you know,

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00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: sixty three and June and twenty pounds. If you get open,

1004
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: that's the single biggest thing you can do for a

1005
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Speaker 1: quarterback in terms of maximizing the window he has to

1006
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: throw you the ball. Well with Sam Monson from Pro

1007
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: Football Focus, who says the Bills have the best wide

1008
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,879
Speaker 1: receiver corp in the NFL, the question to target Sam

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Speaker 1: is interesting to me and I'm wondering if we had

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Speaker 1: a poll of our listeners a week or so ago

1011
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 1: about who's going to lead the team in receptions next year,

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Speaker 1: and there was sort of a consensus that even though

1013
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Speaker 1: Diggs may not lead the team in receptions, Beasley might,

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Speaker 1: John Brown might. He might be the most effective receiver

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Speaker 1: they have. Could it be that he wouldn't lead the

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Speaker 1: bills and receptions even if they focus on him as

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00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 1: a target in the passing game. Yeah, it's definitely possible.

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Speaker 1: I don't see a reason why he wouldn't. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you look last season, John Brown, like typically the

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Speaker 1: slot guy would be the guy that would be a

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Speaker 1: threat to take to leave the team in receptions just

1022
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Speaker 1: from an efficiency standpoint, you know, a lot of teams

1023
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Speaker 1: will feed those guys the ball under NAF and they

1024
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Speaker 1: get a ton of targets and a ton of receptions,

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Speaker 1: and you might get more catches than your quote unquote

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Speaker 1: number one receiver, but it's a very different type of

1027
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: past being sent your way. But even last NS and

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Speaker 1: you know John Brown had more targets, more receptions than

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley did. And you know Stefan Diggs should step

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Speaker 1: in above John Brown as a true sort of number

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Speaker 1: one when it comes to targets share. So yeah, I

1032
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Speaker 1: don't see a good reason why Diggs wouldn't get the

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Speaker 1: most targets and the most receptions on the team. How

1034
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: high does this elevate the expectations for Josh Allen's improvement? Yeah,

1035
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Speaker 1: I think it has to be high. I mean, between this,

1036
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Speaker 1: between them surrounding him with the right type of receivers,

1037
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Speaker 1: between the Patriots losing Tom Brady and the door suddenly

1038
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: being wide open in the AFC East, I think expectations

1039
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: have to be huge for Buffalo right now, not just

1040
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen and his development to take another step forward

1041
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: and sort of meet this receiving or where it should be,

1042
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Speaker 1: but also the whole team in terms of taking a

1043
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: step forward and being a not just a team that

1044
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: hopes they can snatch the AFC East if the Patriots

1045
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: have a down year, but a team that expects to

1046
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Speaker 1: win that division and contend in the playoffs. Around the

1047
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Speaker 1: line of Sam monson Pro Football Focus, leading NFL writer

1048
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Speaker 1: the host of the Pro Football Focus NFL show, You

1049
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: say the Bills may have the best wide receiver group

1050
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Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's not just digs, right, can you

1051
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: talk about You've talked about Brown and Beasley. Is there

1052
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,280
Speaker 1: anybody else who kind of factors into that consideration? Isaia McKenzie,

1053
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Speaker 1: We just said, I'm on the show yesterday. Maybe Andrey Roberts,

1054
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Speaker 1: anybody else who would contribute to them being the best

1055
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Speaker 1: receiver group in the NFL. What do you think, Sam? Yeah,

1056
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they've got some interesting players like

1057
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Speaker 1: McKenzie and like Roberts further down, but it's really about

1058
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Speaker 1: that top three, and I think people underrate the quality

1059
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Speaker 1: of John Brown and Cole Beasley. You know, they dropped

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Speaker 1: a couple of passes more than they should have last season,

1061
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: but even then it was more when those drop passes

1062
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: were roped them this year volume of them. They combined

1063
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: for ten drops last season, which is not a huge

1064
00:53:04,719 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 1: amount when you consider they had like two hundred targets

1065
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: throwing their way. So I think they were overall a

1066
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: kind of underrated receiving duo anyway, And then you bump

1067
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: them each down one in the depth chart. You know,

1068
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: now John Brown is a quality number two, Cole Beasley

1069
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: is a number three, and as a trio, you've got

1070
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: three guys that all specialize in getting open, and I'll

1071
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 1: do it as sort of different levels of the defense

1072
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: as their their calling card. You know, John Brown gets

1073
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: open deep, Cole Beasley gets open underneath. Stefon Diggs gets

1074
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: open pretty much all over the field. So I think

1075
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: as a trio, you know, you might have receiving groups

1076
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: elsewhere in the NFL. You think Tampa Bay that probably

1077
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: have a stronger one two punch, But I don't know

1078
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: that anybody has a better one two three than the

1079
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: Bills right now. I got to ask you as well

1080
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: about this Stefan Diggs trade. How can you rate how

1081
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: good or bad it was? Given the fact that the

1082
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: guys you mentioned that Steph Diggs, if he was in

1083
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: their position, like Julio Jones, like aj Aj Green, like

1084
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 1: a DeAndre Hopkins, if he had been on those teams

1085
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: with more targets, that kind of thing, he'd have been

1086
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: a better player or commensurate with those guys. The Bills,

1087
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: with all the draft picks involved in the trade for

1088
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:16,280
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, the Bills get him back for eleven million

1089
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: dollars a year for four more years. And you put

1090
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: that in contrast with the contractor Amari Cooper signed the

1091
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: deal that aj Green has got gonna get or has

1092
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: in the franchise tag Julio Jones contract. Doesn't it seem

1093
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: like the Steph Diggs deal turns into more of a

1094
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: bargain for the Bills. I mean, I think the deal

1095
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: is an absolute deal for Buffalo, even if they have

1096
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: to extend him to a bigger contract, you know, even

1097
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: if they have to resign Diggs to a more market

1098
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: sort of market appropriate contract for one of the best

1099
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL, I still think it's a great return.

1100
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: You know, they basic trade away a reasonably low first

1101
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:57,200
Speaker 1: round pick and then honestly, the rest of it is noise.

1102
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: It's I know there's a few picks that went that

1103
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: ray the fifth to sixth, twenty twenty one, fourth, but

1104
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: you don't tend to find star players. And I know

1105
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 1: Diggs is the exception that proves that rule. He was

1106
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: a fifth round player. But you look at the fifth

1107
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: round picks over the past couple of seasons, there's basically

1108
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: been nobody. Those picks are not picks that you expect

1109
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: to find quality contributions from in the NFL draft. Those picks,

1110
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: I think are best used in a trade like this

1111
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: as make weights for proven commodity, and you know, the

1112
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: Bills had a need. I think that they wanted to

1113
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:33,840
Speaker 1: attack a number one receiver and they've got an absolute

1114
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: star in Stefon Diggs and all it cost them was

1115
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: you know, the best pick that they could have given

1116
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: up in this draft to try and find that guy. Anyway,

1117
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it's a fantastic deal for the Bills.

1118
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: And if you factor in the fact that he was

1119
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: on a really team friendly contract, if they keep him

1120
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: on that deal and don't give him a higher paid

1121
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: pay rise, I think it's an absolute bargain. Sam, any

1122
00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: thoughts on what the Bills draft should be about now?

1123
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: They're pick is not till the fifty fourth overall selection

1124
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: on the Day two draft, around number two. What should

1125
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: their focus be in the draft in three weeks? What

1126
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: do you think? Well, I think that with the Digs deal,

1127
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:15,560
Speaker 1: they put themselves in a really good position of not

1128
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,239
Speaker 1: having a glaring need rolling into the draft and being

1129
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 1: able to just you know, play the cards as their

1130
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 1: dealt you know, the Bills can now see where the

1131
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: value is and whether it's adding talent to the defensive front,

1132
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: whether it's adding offensive line depth. They can basically, you know,

1133
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: play that draft as it unfolds in front of them.

1134
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: I think that's a great position to be in. It's

1135
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,919
Speaker 1: it's kind of what free agency and trades are all about.

1136
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 1: It's about addressing your biggest concerns before you get into

1137
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: the draft, so you don't need to go chasing value.

1138
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think there's a couple of spots where

1139
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: they could certainly add some depth. But this is a

1140
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: good looking roster now top to bottom. Yeah, I agree

1141
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: with you. I gotta ask you as well. But the

1142
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are moving around different teams. That's up and stuff.

1143
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: Obviously Tom Brady and Tampa Bay Philip Rivers Indianapolis, Which

1144
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: one of those guys are those two veterans that we've

1145
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 1: seen play for at least a decade and a half,

1146
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,399
Speaker 1: Tom Brady for two decades, Tom Brady or Philip Rivers.

1147
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 1: Who's in the better situation. It's tough because I think,

1148
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: you know, Philip Rivers has the best offensive line that's

1149
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: ever been put in front of him now in Indianapolis,

1150
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: and he has a really good situation in terms of

1151
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: play calling the scheme there with Frank Reich. But I

1152
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: don't love the receivers that he's thrunk too. Right now,

1153
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: he's only got t Y Hilton really an awful lot

1154
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: yet to work with, and they traded away their first

1155
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: round pick in free agency, so it's going to be

1156
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: tough for them to assemble a really good receiving car

1157
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: around him. Tampa Bay, you've got a really good receiving duo.

1158
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: They might have the best duo in the NFL with

1159
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 1: Godwin and Evans. The offensive line is okay, but I

1160
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: don't think it's a strength, and then the defenses was

1161
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction last season, so I think

1162
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: from a personnel's downpoint, the Bucks maybe a really good spot.

1163
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 1: But the question mark there is what does this Tom

1164
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: Brady Bruce Arians hybrid sort of mash up offense look like.

1165
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: You know, Arians has a very specific style. He hasn't

1166
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: tended to mold it much to the quarterbacks that have

1167
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: been in his systems, and Tom Brady obviously is used

1168
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: to something completely different. So what does that look like?

1169
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: And can that get the best play out of Tom Brady?

1170
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: I think they're both in good situations, though, I think

1171
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: they both turn those two teams into legitimate playoff contenders.

1172
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: Sam Moss and our guests from Pro Football Focus. I

1173
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 1: want to ask you about a quarterback out West, Tyrod

1174
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: Taylor and the Los Angeles Chargers. Sam are the Chargers well,

1175
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: they I think they are good with him as their

1176
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback candidate, and you anticipate they'll draft a rookie

1177
00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: as well, maybe with the sixth overall pick. Yeah, I

1178
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 1: would expect in the draft a quarterback at the top

1179
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: of the draft. I don't know if they're, you know,

1180
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: in love enough with Justin Herbert who take him that high,

1181
00:58:58,400 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: or if they would look to trade down and make

1182
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: it happened. But there's also a possibility that, you know,

1183
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: to a tug a violo might drop to six. That

1184
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: Adam Schafter has come out, I know and said the

1185
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: Dolphins might not be as sould on two as everybody

1186
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: thinks they are, and all of a sudden, we could

1187
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: see him slip down to where the Chargers pick and

1188
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 1: he becomes their quarterback of the future. And honestly, that

1189
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: gives them a nice sort of bridge. You've got tired

1190
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: Taylor there who could play for the time it takes

1191
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: for two to get himself one hundred percent healthy in

1192
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: and ready to go. What about signing a guy like

1193
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: Cam Newton or Jamis Winston in San Diego. Certainly you

1194
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: could make the case that certainly Cam Newton is an

1195
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: upgrade from Tyrod Taylor, maybe even Jamis Winston if you can,

1196
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: If if the coaches feel like they can wean him

1197
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: off the interception train, they can cut down on his turnovers.

1198
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: He's got a live arm through for five thousand yards.

1199
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: That's kind of the thing that speaks to NFL coaches.

1200
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: What about one of those two options, Jameis Winston or

1201
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: Newton to come in and play ahead of Tyrod Taylor,

1202
00:59:55,760 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 1: if indeed they don't draft somebody, or even if they do. Yeah,

1203
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: I think the fact that Bruce Arians didn't want any

1204
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,080
Speaker 1: part of Jamis Winston in year two speaks volumes in

1205
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 1: terms of the confidence anybody has in being able to

1206
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: stop Jamis Winston's turnover propensity. I think, you know, Bruce

1207
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,920
Speaker 1: Arians has always tended to have a rough first year

1208
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks in his system, but year two is when

1209
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 1: they really start to click and cut down in the

1210
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: mistakes and make all those big plays. And at no

1211
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: point did he ever seem interested in bringing Jami's back

1212
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: for that year. Too, so I think the league is

1213
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: just kind of done with Jamis in terms of a

1214
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: starting opportunity at the moment, and he's gonna have to

1215
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: get a sort of reclamation job as a backup and

1216
01:00:40,600 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: try and do what Ryan Tannehill did a season ago.

1217
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: And then Cam Newton. I think, you know, healthy Cam

1218
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: Newton obviously is a huge upgrade over Tara Taylor, but

1219
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: the last time we saw a healthy Cam Newton is

1220
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 1: getting further and further in the past. And I think

1221
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: that's his big concern is we don't know what the

1222
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty version with Cam Newton actually looks like because

1223
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 1: of all those injuries and the toll they've taken on

1224
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: his body. And I suspect that because of that, there

1225
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:09,480
Speaker 1: aren't gonna be too many teams, you know, knocking his

1226
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: door down to hand him the starting opportunity either. Sam

1227
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: is Washington all set with Dwayne Haskins as their starting quarterback?

1228
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: Do they feel like he's the guy they made a

1229
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: trade for Alan, I don't know, to back him up.

1230
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: Maybe he've been compete for a starting job. He wants

1231
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: to compete for a starting job. What do you think's

1232
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: going on? I think they probably are. I think people

1233
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,840
Speaker 1: have been looking to replace Haskins offseason, whether it was

1234
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: with some of these veteran quarterbacks, whether it's drafting a

1235
01:01:36,600 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 1: guy like two at number two. But I think Haskins

1236
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: showed I mean not as much as any of the

1237
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: other rookie quarterbacks because he didn't play as much, but

1238
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: on a sort of person nap basis, I think he

1239
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: showed a lot as a rookie. He didn't make many

1240
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: mistakes at all, and by the sort of later on

1241
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: in the season, he was making a lot more big throws,

1242
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: he was pushing the ball down the field, he was

1243
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: being more aggressive. So when you consider that he was

1244
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 1: sort of starting behind the eight ball in terms of

1245
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: trying to learn a difficult offense to get to grips

1246
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: with right away, I think he did a pretty good job.

1247
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 1: And I've not never been quite sure why there's been

1248
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: such a rush to replace him as the starting quarterback,

1249
01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 1: compared with the attitudes towards you know, Daniel Jones, Kyler

1250
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: mur even Gardner Minshew. His sort of appears as rookie quarterbacks,

1251
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: so I think they're probably going to give him a

1252
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: shot this year. Kyle Allen comes in as a backup

1253
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:33,080
Speaker 1: that's familiar with the system, but it's gonna be Haskin's job,

1254
01:02:33,160 --> 01:02:36,959
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably the right to call Sam there. Also,

1255
01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:38,760
Speaker 1: on the other side of the football, we've been talking

1256
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:42,360
Speaker 1: about offenses and quarterbacks a little bit. The pass rushers

1257
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: like Everson Griffin, Jadevian Clowning, there's some guys in that

1258
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: market seems to have dried up. What are your thoughts

1259
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: on what the reason for that might be. Maybe those

1260
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: guys are too different and separate situations, But why are

1261
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: people and teams not interested or not, you know, beating

1262
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: guys beating down on the door of Everson Griffin and

1263
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney. Yeah, I think that probably our two separate situations.

1264
01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 1: With Clowney, I think it's just because he wants market

1265
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: setting money. He wants to be the best paid edge

1266
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,680
Speaker 1: rusher in the NFL, and he isn't the best edge

1267
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 1: rusher in the NFL. You know, all the data suggests,

1268
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: and you know, I think looking at Sachs doesn't tell

1269
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Speaker 1: the whole story. But even if you look at just pressure,

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Speaker 1: he's never top sixty five pressures in the season. Last year,

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Speaker 1: Zadarius Smith led the NFL with ninety three. So there's

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Speaker 1: a big drop off between the top top edge rushers

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Speaker 1: in terms of pressure and where Jadeveon Clowney is every

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Speaker 1: single season, and I think that's significant and teams just

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Speaker 1: don't want to make him the best paid guy in

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Speaker 1: the NFL when he isn't at that level. Everson Griffin,

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably more of a case of, honestly,

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Speaker 1: it might be a case of him trying to bide

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01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 1: his time and landing the right situation after the draft.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's a guy that is still capable of

1281
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: getting good pressure and to be honest, in terms of

1282
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: play level, there really isn't much between Jadeveon Clowne and

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01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin. It's just age that separates them. So Griffin

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01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: might be, you know, trying to target the ideal landing

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01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: spot post draft and find a place where he can

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01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: get you know, legit or starting time and not have

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01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: to worry about a rookie eating into a snap. Hey, Sam,

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01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: the least thing I have for you. And it's back

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Speaker 1: to the Bills for a second. You say the Bills

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Speaker 1: could have the NFL's best receiving cord this coming year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if that's to happen, how can they best take advantage

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01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: of it, in particular through the analytical lens that Pro

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01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 1: Football Focus specializes in. How should the offense evolve a

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01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 1: little bit to take advantage of the good receiving cord

1295
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:40,160
Speaker 1: that you say they've assembled. I honestly don't think it

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01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: needs to. And that's that's the beauty of the type

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01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 1: of flare they've tried to assemble, is that they you know,

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01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of different ways you can try

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Speaker 1: and maximize passing efficiency, but I think the single biggest

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01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: one is getting guys that are just going to get

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01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 1: open because at that point, the quarterback has a bigger

1302
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: margin for error. You know, you think of, you know,

1303
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: a quick out route. If you're able to lose was

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01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: your man by two or three yards, Suddenly the quarterback

1305
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: can leave that ball a little bit behind you and

1306
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:06,440
Speaker 1: it's not a you don't have to worry about a

1307
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: pass breakup or an interception because the cornerback is right

1308
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 1: and the receiver's hit. So that group is going to

1309
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: make Josh Allen more efficient because they're able to get

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01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 1: wider open than the receivers in the pons. So yeah,

1311
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: I don't think they need to do a whole lot

1312
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: schematically to change. I think they just need to hope

1313
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen, can you embrace the fact that his

1314
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 1: job is going to be made a little bit easier

1315
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: because he's got better receivers and that improves everything around him.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sam, I appreciate it anytime. Guys, Take it easy.

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01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,160
Speaker 1: Dan monson Pro Football Focus lead NFL writer. He is

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01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 1: the host of PF's NFL show. I was half kitten, Steve.

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01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: I don't recall anybody in recent memory. He's saying. The

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01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: Bill said of the best receiving corps in the NFL.

1321
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: That got my attention this morning when I read that. Yeah,

1322
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 1: he said, you know, going three deep down the rosters.

1323
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: Certainly Stable Bay's got maybe a better one two guy,

1324
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: but the Bill's going down through three with John Brown,

1325
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and now of course Stefan Diggs maybe at

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01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: the top of those two. You go three deep with

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01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: the Bills, and they are a handful, And I think

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01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: it's a good observation by him. I don't know that

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01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: I could name three other wide receivers on another NFL team,

1330
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: so would easily. Of course, I live and breathe the Bills,

1331
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. I mean, they do

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01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: seem to have a three headed wide receiving corps that's

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01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: going to give teams a lot of problems. I think

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01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun if if if

1335
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:29,919
Speaker 1: we can get our guy to throw it, we're gonna

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01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:32,479
Speaker 1: be good here. And that brings me to this question

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01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: I have for you, Steve Tasker, and I have an

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01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: answer for this too. But with all this, keeping your

1339
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 1: mind all this, you know, good receiving cord, the addition

1340
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:42,760
Speaker 1: of Stefan Diggs, And that's why I asked that last question.

1341
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate the bills offensive focus will change much.

1342
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 1: For instance, they're still gonna want to run the ball.

1343
01:06:49,120 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 1: I think they were second and third in percentage of

1344
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 1: rushing attempts. I say, I think they're still gonna want

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01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: to do that this coming season, don't you? Yeah? And

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01:06:55,400 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: I think if certainly they're, they're gonna start out or

1347
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 1: so with uh from the get go, with Devin Singletary

1348
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 1: carrying the ball instead of Frank Gore. They trust Devon

1349
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: now he's got a year under his belt in this offense.

1350
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's going to have another year in this offense,

1351
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: He's gonna be able to study himself, look at the

1352
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 1: films where he didn't where he did leave plays on

1353
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: the on the field, get into his own mind about

1354
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: what he was thought process on about some of the

1355
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,240
Speaker 1: plays he missed. I just look for another step in

1356
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:30,520
Speaker 1: the progress of the quarterback, and I think that will

1357
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: elevate everybody around him to an even greater degree. So

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01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:36,760
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of there's obviously we've talked

1359
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 1: about it, and other people are seeing it. Sam Monson

1360
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 1: for one, from Pro Football Focused, there's a lot of

1361
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:44,439
Speaker 1: reason and a lot of conversation around the country about

1362
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: why the Bills are going to be a really, really

1363
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: good football team this year. Um. I think now we

1364
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 1: got to hope for is for the season to start

1365
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: on time and for us to be there watching it.

1366
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 1: That's right, all right, we got a break here, We're

1367
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: coming back. Give us a call. We got lines open

1368
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 1: fifty one, eight, eight, fifty two, five fifty. What's the

1369
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 1: most underrated move the Bills have made so far this offseason?

1370
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: What do you think about? Sam Monson and Pro Football Focusing?

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01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: The Bills have the best wide receiving group in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Line's open to talk about that. When we come back.

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Speaker 1: One Bill Side, presented by Alida Health, The Seneca studio

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01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: remains shutdown. Steve's at home. I'm at home. We're coming

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 1: to you on Buffalo Billso welcome back. One Bill's Live.

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01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 1: We're doing it from home, not from the Seneca studio.

1377
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: John Murphy and my kitchen. Steve Tasker is in his den. Hey,

1378
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: if you miss a segment of the show, say you'd

1379
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: like to hear what Sam Monson said about the Bills

1380
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 1: having the number one wide receiver group in the NFL.

1381
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 1: You can always go to our podcast shows at Buffalo

1382
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,639
Speaker 1: Bills dot com, the Bills app, iTunes, Spotify, Google Play.

1383
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:55,679
Speaker 1: You can always stream the show live on the Bills app.

1384
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 1: So there are alternatives if you're not able to listen

1385
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: Today Radio only Today you miss you know, TV, Steve,

1386
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: I do not. I don't either. I gotta be honest

1387
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: with you. And for the record, and I shaved Monday.

1388
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: What's Tuesday? We're shaved? We look, you know. I get

1389
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 1: up and take a shower and dress every day. It's

1390
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 1: not like we're doing that. We were tempted, I think,

1391
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:17,080
Speaker 1: weren't you tempted. I was. We talked about it. You're

1392
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:18,760
Speaker 1: gonna wear pants when you do the show? No, of

1393
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 1: course I'm wearing pants, right, I won't. You're wearing pants,

1394
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 1: aren't I do? I'll listen. I put myself together for

1395
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:26,439
Speaker 1: the show. I do. I don't just show up in

1396
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 1: my in my pajamas and a T shirt. And you

1397
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 1: know I do. I do eat a lot more since

1398
01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 1: I'm in my house. I do eat a lot more

1399
01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: while we're on the air, during the breaks and stuff

1400
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: like that. I'll get something to drink. I can get

1401
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: up and walk around. Well. I don't do that as

1402
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: much when we're in the studio on TV, but now

1403
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: you know you can time. You can get to the

1404
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,599
Speaker 1: refrigerator and back in time in the break. So it's

1405
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: you know I do. I will confess to that. I'm

1406
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,679
Speaker 1: doing the show and bone because the WiFi is strongest

1407
01:09:53,760 --> 01:09:55,160
Speaker 1: in our kitchen. I do the show in the kitchen.

1408
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 1: It's a constant battle not to grab something to eat

1409
01:09:57,880 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: every break. I did grab some soup. By the way,

1410
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 1: did you put any weight on over the over the No, No,

1411
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 1: I don't eat much. I just eat during the show

1412
01:10:05,400 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: when I usually don't. Yeah, I kind of great. I

1413
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:09,920
Speaker 1: kind of find myself grazing all day, you know, which

1414
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:13,920
Speaker 1: is a totally total death. So I got but now,

1415
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: you know, like on a day like today where it's

1416
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: sunny and to get a little warmer, I'll be outside

1417
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: and I'll do some stuff. So it'll that'll be good,

1418
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 1: a good break. Welcome to do you do anything fun?

1419
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 1: Last night? Now, I watched the program. We kind of

1420
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: stay busy during the day with the show and stuff,

1421
01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: and then we'll go out. We ran out ran Errand's

1422
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:34,799
Speaker 1: last night. And in fact, you know, we've got Amanda

1423
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:37,760
Speaker 1: Farrell from Connect Life coming on later in the show. Yep.

1424
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:41,680
Speaker 1: And that was total by total coincidence. I was at

1425
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 1: Connect Life last night and I gave blood. Oh wow. Yeah,

1426
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 1: And I'd had no idea that well up until I

1427
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 1: found out yesterday she was coming on the show. I

1428
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: had the appointment, and uh so I went in and

1429
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: gave a pint of blood last night, and uh and

1430
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 1: so did my wife. So we did that and perfect

1431
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: preparation for having a Manda Farrell from Connect Life on,

1432
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,559
Speaker 1: which is exactly where I gave my gave my donation.

1433
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: So that's what we did kind of last night's coming

1434
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:10,040
Speaker 1: on at two thirty. I watched Remember I was complaining

1435
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 1: about this a week or two ago, the Ken Burns

1436
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:15,560
Speaker 1: Baseball series. Yeah, and I was, so I watched it

1437
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: again last night. I'm getting smarter. I kind of would

1438
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: watched it and let it roll through commercial breaks, went

1439
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: out and did stuff during the breaks, and you know,

1440
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: cook a couple of chicken things, and then went back

1441
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: and zipped through all the commercials. Okay, So it was

1442
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 1: much easier to watch. It was about the night the

1443
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: decade of the thirties when baseball was amazing, but it

1444
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 1: was also they spends a lot of time on Negro

1445
01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:38,600
Speaker 1: league baseball, and I thought to myself, that's I got

1446
01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: to know more about Negro league baseball. So I ordered

1447
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:44,679
Speaker 1: a book from Amazon dot com about the Negro leagues.

1448
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: I think it's called Shades of Gray. Came out four

1449
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: or five years ago. I'm excited about that. I'll be

1450
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:51,840
Speaker 1: an expert. Yeah, it's good. It's good to you know,

1451
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 1: have the time to look at other things, you know,

1452
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I'd never have time to

1453
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:57,920
Speaker 1: do that before. Ken Birds didn't. Ken Burns did not

1454
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: write Shades of Gray. Who did No, No, No, I

1455
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: got it. Where did I do with it? I don't know.

1456
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 1: I forget who wrote it. It's it's kind of a

1457
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 1: comprehensive look at Negro League baseball. I never went, um

1458
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 1: but in Kansas City when the Bills used to play

1459
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Um. The Negro League Baseball Museum is in

1460
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and I've always wanted to go. Next time

1461
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 1: I get there, I want to go check it out.

1462
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 1: Is there a Negro League Hall of Fame? I'm ashamed.

1463
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:23,759
Speaker 1: I think there is in Kansas City. Yeah, a museum

1464
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: and yeah yeah yeah. Um Hey, let's do what's for lunch?

1465
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: We haven't done that in a while. What's for lunch?

1466
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:34,240
Speaker 1: Where we decide among which topic are we in favor with?

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01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,760
Speaker 1: What what's for lunch? I'll tell you right now, Steve

1468
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: just had a peanut butter and honey sandwich. I'm walking

1469
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 1: down some vegetable beef soups. So literally, that's what for lunch?

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01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 1: What would you do, Steve, peanut butter and honey or

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01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: a vegetable beef soup. What's well? I don't know. I

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01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 1: like what I had just had. It was a triple decker,

1473
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:53,360
Speaker 1: so I had the honey between two slices of bread

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01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 1: and the peanut butter between the top slice of bread

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Speaker 1: and a third slice of bread. So it's big. It's

1476
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: not very good, very good. The best part about it

1477
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: was it was brought to me. I didn't have to

1478
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: get up and myself. So it's sandwiches always tastes better

1479
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 1: when somebody else makes them. That's right, That's that's true.

1480
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,599
Speaker 1: Actually right, But let's do really, what's for lunch? Here? Um?

1481
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: What's for lunch? Biggest breakout player for the Bills in

1482
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:22,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty? Who is it? Devin Singletary or Ed Oliver? Oh?

1483
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 1: Those are two tough choices, um man. I can make

1484
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 1: an argument for either one, Steve, But I'll make the

1485
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: argument for Devin Singletary, who got a slow start to

1486
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,560
Speaker 1: his rookie campaign with a couple of injuries, missed a

1487
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:35,640
Speaker 1: game towards the end. I think he played fifteen, but

1488
01:13:35,720 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 1: he didn't really play a lot early on. The Bill

1489
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:42,639
Speaker 1: seemed reluctant, reluctant to put a lot on his plate

1490
01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: early on, and then finally got more reluctant as the

1491
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: season goes along, for those reasons and for general uh. Actually,

1492
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:51,840
Speaker 1: he only played twelve games last year for general, um

1493
01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:54,880
Speaker 1: just because I think the offense is gonna be better.

1494
01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: I think Devin Singletary is gonna have the bigger breakout season.

1495
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: But you can make the argument, and I can make

1496
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,800
Speaker 1: the argument for any and Oliver. What do you think, Steve, Yeah,

1497
01:14:02,840 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 1: I agree with you. The only reason I leaned towards

1498
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: the offensive guy, Devin Singletary is because they're gonna hand

1499
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,600
Speaker 1: him the football, and I think that makes all the

1500
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:15,719
Speaker 1: difference in the world. He's gonna get a ton of carries,

1501
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a ton of receptions, he's gonna be

1502
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: the top guy. Now this could this all changes if

1503
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: they sign a you know, a guy like they did

1504
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 1: last year with like like Gore, Frank Gore or somebody

1505
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:32,719
Speaker 1: else like that. But given the fact that Devin Singletary

1506
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 1: comes back as your number one running back, I think

1507
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: he gotta give the nod to him because of the

1508
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: opportunities that he's gonna get because of his position. Not

1509
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:42,080
Speaker 1: no question at at Oliver, he kind of looked for

1510
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 1: big things from him, but as playing a defensive tackle

1511
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: like he is, it's hard to envision him busting out

1512
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: and getting twelve sacks. He could and I think he's

1513
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: gonna play at the beginning of this year and move

1514
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 1: forward at the like he was playing at the end

1515
01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,240
Speaker 1: of last year. He was a handful at the end

1516
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 1: of last year, and he kind of kind of thinks

1517
01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:04,640
Speaker 1: started to click for him as to how he was

1518
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:08,639
Speaker 1: going to play and how teams were defending him from

1519
01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, defending his pass rush

1520
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:14,200
Speaker 1: and protecting against him. I think he learned a lot,

1521
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:16,599
Speaker 1: and I think that's gonna pay big dividends. But because

1522
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: of the opportunities, I'd lean toward Devin Singletary, I'd leaned

1523
01:15:20,320 --> 01:15:22,000
Speaker 1: to him. But let me make an argument for Ed

1524
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 1: Oliver here. You know, Oliver got off to a slow

1525
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: start as well and lost his starting spot on a

1526
01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 1: team that now is in the habit of rotating defensive lineman.

1527
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:34,719
Speaker 1: I think he'll line up with the starters this coming season,

1528
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 1: and I think he'll stay in there. Got better as

1529
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 1: the season went along, learned how to play. I think

1530
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: he sort of refocused his efforts as the season went

1531
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: along and learned a lot from the from the Bill's

1532
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 1: strong team work ethic and the strong team culture that

1533
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,679
Speaker 1: he learned a lot about what it takes to succeed

1534
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So there's my argument for Ed Oliver,

1535
01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: although I would lean on Devin Singletary as having a

1536
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:57,560
Speaker 1: bigger breakout here. Yeah, I agree, I agree completely. I

1537
01:15:57,640 --> 01:15:59,680
Speaker 1: think that it makes a lot of sense, and it's

1538
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: hard for a guy Edd's position to stand out. It's

1539
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: just more difficult. Yep. All right, once for a launch

1540
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: Part two? Which team is a position to improve the

1541
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: most this offseason? The Miami Dolphins or the Buffalo Bills.

1542
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 1: That I assume that question doesn't mean which team is

1543
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 1: going to improve in twenty twenty as much as it

1544
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:22,639
Speaker 1: does in position to improve in the offseason. I'll take

1545
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:26,000
Speaker 1: it how it's written, because look, I think the Dolphins,

1546
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: who what won five last year, are gonna win two

1547
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:30,719
Speaker 1: or three more than that this year. I think the Bills,

1548
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: with their schedule and they were a pretty good team

1549
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 1: last year, will probably you know, win one or maybe

1550
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: two games more this year. But this offseason, who can

1551
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: improve the most? It's clearly the Dolphins. Right Look, the

1552
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: Bills going to this draft now without a first rounder,

1553
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: they've added Stefan Digs. They don't have a need to

1554
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,840
Speaker 1: improve that much in the offseason. They have to keep

1555
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:52,080
Speaker 1: things together and get better add a few pieces they

1556
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: already have. But I think the Dolphins have a need

1557
01:16:54,520 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 1: to improve this offseason. What do you think, Steve Oh

1558
01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are going to improve way more than the

1559
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna be capable of improving. Now. The Bills,

1560
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,480
Speaker 1: I think they have improved, no question about it, tangibly

1561
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:06,679
Speaker 1: and tangibly whatever you want to slice that. The Bills

1562
01:17:06,720 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 1: have gotten to be a better team. But they won

1563
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:11,040
Speaker 1: ten games last year. If they get two games better,

1564
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:15,720
Speaker 1: that's twelve. If the Dolphins get five games better, that's

1565
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: only ten. So the Dolphins could take a step like

1566
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: the Bills did last year and improved greatly, and I

1567
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 1: think that would be a bigger improvement than the Bills

1568
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 1: winning an extra game or two. I still think the

1569
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: Bills are going to be a better football team when

1570
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,799
Speaker 1: all of a sudden done at the end of twenty twenty.

1571
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:34,320
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins have so much more room starting you

1572
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:37,639
Speaker 1: six weeks ago than the Bills did. I think that's

1573
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:40,439
Speaker 1: where the questions goes in favor of the Dolphins. They

1574
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: just they were so bad last year that they just

1575
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,559
Speaker 1: have so much more room for improvement, and they've made

1576
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: some moves already that are going to help them. So yeah,

1577
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think the Dolphins are going to

1578
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 1: improve the most this offseason. What's for lunch? Part three?

1579
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,439
Speaker 1: That's a good question too. I tell you what, if

1580
01:17:57,439 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: the questions are always this good, I do What's for

1581
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: lunch every day? Three? Cam Newton starter or a backup?

1582
01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,720
Speaker 1: This coming season, I'm gonna go back up, Steve. I

1583
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,800
Speaker 1: think there are significant health questions about Cam Newton and

1584
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: people wondering where he is in his career. I think

1585
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,600
Speaker 1: a team that would sign Cam Newton and say to

1586
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: him right away, you're our starter would be making a

1587
01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: mistake and I'd be surprised if anybody did that. But

1588
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: even when the season begins, I think he will be

1589
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 1: a backup to somebody. What do you think? I think

1590
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:31,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say starter, And here's why. I think he

1591
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,720
Speaker 1: will pick his spot to a point where he'll go

1592
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: somewhere where they're gonna tell him, Okay, Cam, you can compete,

1593
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 1: and we'll give you a chance to compete to be

1594
01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:43,679
Speaker 1: the starter. Someplace will you name it, like a Miami

1595
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: or any place else you want to name. And it's

1596
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: hard to find places like that. Denver. He could go

1597
01:18:51,160 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: to Denver and compete for a starting job with the

1598
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: guy they've got, or you could go to even San

1599
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: Diego and compete with Tyrod Taylor. I think he'll pick

1600
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: a spot that will say, okay, camp, we'll let you

1601
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:02,080
Speaker 1: come in at least compete. We're not going to give

1602
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 1: you the job, and if it's anything better than that,

1603
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: say yeah, we'll let you start, or we're gonna drive

1604
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: draft somebody. Cam Newton still has a lot of good

1605
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: football in him, and I think he'll pick a spot

1606
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: that will give him a chance to compete. And I

1607
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 1: think given that, I think he might be able to

1608
01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: finagle his way into taking snaps on opening Day. So

1609
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: I think i'd say that. I think he'll pick his

1610
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: spot to a place where he'll be able to compete,

1611
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: and he'll probably win that competition in camp. Said one

1612
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 1: more what's for lunch questions, Steve and I will debate

1613
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: who's the better AFC South team right now, the Indianapolis

1614
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:40,840
Speaker 1: Colts or the Tennessee Titans. Noteworthy, we did not ask

1615
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: the question about the Houston Texans who won that Did

1616
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:47,439
Speaker 1: they win it while they were a playoff team? Lesher

1617
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: from the AFC South and had a pretty decent season,

1618
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,640
Speaker 1: won their wand card playoff game. But right now in

1619
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: the AFC South, which team is better the Indianapolis Colts

1620
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: or the Tennessee Titans. Who do you have see? I'm

1621
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: taking the Indianapolis Colts. Phillip River has got some football

1622
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:03,559
Speaker 1: in him that got exactly the kind of offense built

1623
01:20:03,600 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 1: around him with the right support staff around him for

1624
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:10,799
Speaker 1: him to be successful. Their offensive line is gonna be dominant,

1625
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: So I would say I would say the Indianapolis Colts.

1626
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: I think, and I've said it a ton when right

1627
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 1: after the season Tennessee caught lightning in a bottle that

1628
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 1: runs over, Let's see him do it again. You think

1629
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is gonna have the kind of season for

1630
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 1: an entire season that he had in the last half

1631
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: of last year. I don't believe it. Quite Frankly, he may,

1632
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: but I don't believe it until I see it, And

1633
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: that team around him will probably not be as good

1634
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 1: or as sharp as it wasn't the last half of

1635
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 1: last season. So I'm thinking that Colts, at least in

1636
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: the early part of this coming season, are going to

1637
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: be a better team than the Titans. I'm thinking the

1638
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:51,600
Speaker 1: same way you are. I think the Colts are. I

1639
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:54,960
Speaker 1: was thinking about this when Monson Sam Monson last segment

1640
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: talked about Philip Rivers playing behind one of the great

1641
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:00,000
Speaker 1: offensive lines in the league. That's gonna make it different.

1642
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 1: I think Rivers has a lot to offer, a lot

1643
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,760
Speaker 1: more than Ryan Tannehill. I think it was I think

1644
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: it was outlier. It's a season for Ryan Tannehill. I

1645
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: don't anticipate that'll happen again. Here you go. That's what's

1646
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:13,840
Speaker 1: for lunch today. We didn't deal with the chicken wing

1647
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 1: or piece of fish between two pieces of white bread

1648
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: for a chain. That's good, Steve. I'm happy about that.

1649
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: That's one good reason to be off TV. Yeah yeah,

1650
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: all right, break here and then we're coming back with more.

1651
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:26,400
Speaker 1: We got a phone lines open and got one call

1652
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:28,720
Speaker 1: teed up. We got three calls teed up. We'll come

1653
01:21:28,760 --> 01:21:31,240
Speaker 1: back and take those calls. One Bill's Live presented by

1654
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:33,720
Speaker 1: Collida Health. Steve's at home. I'm at home. This is

1655
01:21:33,800 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, John Murphy, see Tansker. One

1656
01:21:44,640 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. Let's take a few

1657
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,839
Speaker 1: bone calls here let's go to h Robert in Toronto.

1658
01:21:49,960 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: Hello Robert, you're on the air. Just wanted to say

1659
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: thank you to you guys for the show. It's it

1660
01:21:57,400 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 1: makes a difference in my life up here, and I

1661
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 1: think to a lot of Bills fans all over the world. Um,

1662
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 1: first off, my first point is, Uh, the underrated move

1663
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,599
Speaker 1: the Bills made this offseason is I think Tyler mcdavide

1664
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 1: from the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think he's not only going

1665
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: to be a special teams guy, but I think he's

1666
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:18,640
Speaker 1: going to be the third go to linebacker for the Bills. Uh,

1667
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 1: this year. I just wanted to get your feedback on

1668
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: that before I give you my second point. So you

1669
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 1: would put mettacabage, I mean you're putting them ahead of

1670
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: some of the other free agents the Bills have signed.

1671
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 1: As far as free agent linebackers, You've you put them

1672
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: out of a J. Klein. You think, well, he's that underrated, underrated, Yeah,

1673
01:22:37,560 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: but you're you're thinking he'll play some defense, Is that right?

1674
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:42,839
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be able to play some defense,

1675
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:44,559
Speaker 1: and I think by the end of the year he's

1676
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: going to be the guy that's going to be starting

1677
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:51,759
Speaker 1: ahead of the other linebackers beside their two smurders. Oh interesting,

1678
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: all right, and well yeah, I don't I don't know.

1679
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: I don't see that, but it could be. Right. What

1680
01:22:57,200 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 1: do you think, Steve, I think as he's got a

1681
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,000
Speaker 1: long way to go, no question. No, that's not why

1682
01:23:02,040 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 1: he was brought in, but certainly the Bills are going

1683
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:06,720
Speaker 1: to give him every chance to succeed. Um, you got

1684
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,880
Speaker 1: to think if that happens, something happened with A J. Klein,

1685
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 1: somebody has something happened with the other options they had

1686
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:18,360
Speaker 1: as well with uh, well whoever. Now Matta kevinc has

1687
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: got some experience, there's no question, and he won't shy

1688
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:25,599
Speaker 1: away from it. I'm sure. But listen, if that happens,

1689
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,800
Speaker 1: You're right, it was a highly underrated signing, Steve. I

1690
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: kind of like it to either. When you were kids

1691
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: of the Bills, you were just especially not just you were,

1692
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, the best special teams player for the Bills.

1693
01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 1: But later on in your career you got to play

1694
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:42,640
Speaker 1: some some wide receiver, and I think you've given the

1695
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: opportunity like you had the opportunity finally, Um, this kid

1696
01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: could excel. And I think sometimes some guys just need

1697
01:23:51,040 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: the opportunity to be able to play. And I think

1698
01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 1: with our coach and Leslie Frazier on defense, I think

1699
01:23:57,479 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna I just got a feeling about this

1700
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: guy after I've watched some tape on them, and I

1701
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: think you've got the ability and you got the chance

1702
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 1: to erect expectations. Let's say I'll say this, UM, guys

1703
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: who play special teams UM usually are pretty versatile athletes

1704
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:17,479
Speaker 1: because you have to go backwards. You have to move forward.

1705
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: You know, you have to drop into into return mode

1706
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 1: and protect on returns and block on returns. You have

1707
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,400
Speaker 1: to go forward to attack and tackle guys. You have

1708
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 1: to take on blocks, you have to perform blocks. You

1709
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:31,200
Speaker 1: got to run sometimes a guy like me, you had

1710
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 1: to run with the football as well as tackle the

1711
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: guy with the football. UM. So, special teams players who

1712
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 1: are really good and have proven to be really good

1713
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 1: are usually really versatile guys. And if that applies to Metakevich,

1714
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:44,840
Speaker 1: then yeah, there's every chance in the world that they

1715
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: could give him a chance to h to excel at

1716
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: linebacker and he would need problem. He's no doubt got

1717
01:24:50,960 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: the athletic ability to do it. So it'll be interesting

1718
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:55,479
Speaker 1: to see if it happens. Robert, what about your other point? Please?

1719
01:24:56,640 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: My second point was this has been on top of

1720
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: for the bill second round pick Um, I see us

1721
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: going receiver, and I had a question for both of you,

1722
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:06,160
Speaker 1: and I talked about it with a buddy of mine.

1723
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:09,080
Speaker 1: If the god Receiver and these are like the second

1724
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: tier guys, if we were left with Levisco or Chase Claypool,

1725
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:15,240
Speaker 1: I said to my buddy, I'd run to have Chase

1726
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 1: Claypool because I think they're kind of similar. Guys like

1727
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:22,680
Speaker 1: the speed of Claypool as a post levison, and I

1728
01:25:22,760 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 1: wanted to see here what you guys have to think. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1729
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 1: I do too. I think Murph and I are both

1730
01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 1: kind of leaning towards Claypool. We like what he saw

1731
01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: the combine. He he uh ran extremely well, and his

1732
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,760
Speaker 1: strengths were not the fact that he could run and

1733
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:43,440
Speaker 1: he ran like a four four two forty at the combine.

1734
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: It was really fast, and that was surprised a lot

1735
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 1: of people. He's big too, Like you said, six three

1736
01:25:49,080 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: sixty four. He's two thirty, so he's a big dude.

1737
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: And he still ran a four four forty. That's big

1738
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,719
Speaker 1: and I think that's why I leaned towards him, because

1739
01:25:58,200 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 1: he can win fifty fifty balls. He's a great possession receiver, meaning,

1740
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, a highball guys, a big body. Ye. So yeah,

1741
01:26:07,160 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: I kind of like him at the If you can

1742
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 1: get him in the second round, I wouldn't be surprised

1743
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: if they did take him, despite the fact that they've

1744
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 1: got a pretty good core already at the wide receiver.

1745
01:26:14,840 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 1: Thanks Rabert, Let's go to a mark on Grand Island. Hi,

1746
01:26:17,520 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: Marco ahead, you're on the air, Hi, how are you today?

1747
01:26:21,800 --> 01:26:24,599
Speaker 1: I was just calling to find out about the Carlos

1748
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:29,120
Speaker 1: Hide free agency and what it would do to our backfield.

1749
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:34,160
Speaker 1: If we have the best, you know, threesome for wide receiver,

1750
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: adding someone with like him with over a thousand yards

1751
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,360
Speaker 1: last year, would that give us the best one two

1752
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 1: punch in the backfield? Yeah, he would. He'd be something

1753
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:47,080
Speaker 1: I'd really be interested in. And every day that goes by,

1754
01:26:47,560 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 1: you gotta believe his price goes down a little bit, right,

1755
01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: And so I don't blame the Bills for kind of

1756
01:26:51,760 --> 01:26:54,720
Speaker 1: waiting him out. A thousand yard receiver probably is looking

1757
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:56,600
Speaker 1: for a big contract, probably not going to get it.

1758
01:26:56,800 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 1: And if the Bills waiting long enough, they're probably giving

1759
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 1: me a good deal of a good price. Now, I

1760
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: will say this, Carlos Hide or anybody else. I think

1761
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary is the focal point of the Buffalo running game.

1762
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 1: But Carlos Hide would to me, would be a good

1763
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:13,280
Speaker 1: change up back to Devin Singletary. Different style, different body type.

1764
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: I think he'd be. I'd really like to see him here. Yeah,

1765
01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 1: you've been in love with Carlos Hyde ever since Houston

1766
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,479
Speaker 1: released him and the other guy what was her name?

1767
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: What was the other guy? Was it? Yeah, the name

1768
01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 1: from Miami, the former Miami Dolphins guy. I've eaten. No

1769
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 1: No Miller, Jamar Miller. Um. Those two guys got released

1770
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 1: the same day and you were all over Carlos Hide

1771
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: and no question. Uh, Carlos Hides a proven back who

1772
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: will come in, and you know what, I think the

1773
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:45,120
Speaker 1: Bills get him. It'll be just like a Frank Gore

1774
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: deal and all these other deals. It'll be a one

1775
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 1: year prove it deal. Stay in the league, play well,

1776
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:53,639
Speaker 1: you'll come in. You'll back up our young young guy.

1777
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: But if you start playing well, you're gonna get more carries.

1778
01:27:56,160 --> 01:27:57,680
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. And that would have appeal to

1779
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:01,559
Speaker 1: a player like hide Um. All he would be asked

1780
01:28:01,600 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: to do would be listen, he's gonna get At first,

1781
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: he may get four or five six carries a game.

1782
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: If they go well, that makes banded to ten on

1783
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:12,920
Speaker 1: that game, and then the next week he'll start at

1784
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,759
Speaker 1: ten and if he goes well again, he'll get fifteen.

1785
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: As if you're a guy that can come into Buffalo

1786
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 1: and be productive, you're gonna get carries as a running back,

1787
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter who's in front of you or

1788
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 1: who's behind you. But that also goes obviously for Devin

1789
01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 1: Singletary as well. If he's knocking it dead, nobody else

1790
01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:33,840
Speaker 1: is going to get the football. So but I think

1791
01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:36,640
Speaker 1: that appeals to a guy Murpha player coming in. Hey,

1792
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 1: if you can make the most of your opportunity, you're

1793
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:40,639
Speaker 1: gonna get more of them. All right, We got a break.

1794
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 1: When we come back, Joe Corey, former NFL player agent,

1795
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:47,439
Speaker 1: now a contract and salary camp expert for CBS Sports

1796
01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 1: dot Com. Joe Corey, When we return, One Bill's Live

1797
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida Health. We're coming to you from our

1798
01:28:52,560 --> 01:29:00,599
Speaker 1: homes radio only today. This is Buffalo Bill's ready comes

1799
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:04,200
Speaker 1: from One Bills Live today as we take a look

1800
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,439
Speaker 1: at what's going on around the National Football League. Very

1801
01:29:06,479 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: quiet around the Buffalo Bills, to be sure, but NFL

1802
01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 1: executives say they planned to start their twenty twenty season

1803
01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: on time this September. That came about after yesterday's conference

1804
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: call among NFL owners, despite the global coronavirus pandemic that

1805
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:24,759
Speaker 1: shutdown sports around the world. The expectation, according to league

1806
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:28,719
Speaker 1: executive President Jeff Passes, that they will start on time,

1807
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:30,720
Speaker 1: and I certain of that, pass said, not certain, I'll

1808
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:33,120
Speaker 1: be here tomorrow. He was asked whether the league is

1809
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 1: making contingency plans for a later start or for games

1810
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: that we played in neutral or mp stadiums. Pass said

1811
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:43,759
Speaker 1: the league's first models indicate that that might be likely.

1812
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,360
Speaker 1: The April twenty third to the twenty fifth raft remains

1813
01:29:46,400 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 1: on schedule, the format not yet finalized. Yesterday, NFL owners

1814
01:29:50,439 --> 01:29:53,240
Speaker 1: formerly approved a plan to expand the postseason the fourteen

1815
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:56,559
Speaker 1: games or fourteen teams rather beginning with a twenty twenty season.

1816
01:29:56,960 --> 01:29:59,679
Speaker 1: The new format changers probor league practice in two ways.

1817
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:02,600
Speaker 1: Three wild card teams per conference up from two, and

1818
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 1: the number two seed in each conference will host the

1819
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:07,439
Speaker 1: new number seven, with only the one seed having a

1820
01:30:07,520 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: first round by Cleveland Browns have signed veteran defenseman Adrian

1821
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:13,559
Speaker 1: Claiborne to a two year deal. They'll make five point

1822
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 1: seven five million over two years, a max of six

1823
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 1: point seven five million with incentives. He's thirty one years old.

1824
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 1: Claiborne played for the Atlanta Falcons last year. Patriots senator

1825
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:24,960
Speaker 1: David Andrews missed all the last season with blood clots

1826
01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 1: in his lungs. Now, the Patriots player preparing to return,

1827
01:30:28,400 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old said he has tried to fight

1828
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,799
Speaker 1: through the blood plots that left him hospitalized in August.

1829
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: Said he should be good to go this year. And

1830
01:30:36,080 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 1: the Wimbledon Championships have been canceled due to the pandemic.

1831
01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 1: According to the England Club, the first time Wimbledon has

1832
01:30:42,200 --> 01:30:45,120
Speaker 1: been canceled since World War Two, the first time since

1833
01:30:45,160 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 1: the tournament began in eighteen seventy seven. The event will

1834
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 1: not be played during peacetime. Wimbledon had been scheduled to

1835
01:30:50,960 --> 01:30:54,320
Speaker 1: be playing between June twenty nine and July twelfth. The

1836
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:58,240
Speaker 1: All England Club considered a variety of alternatives, including postwonment,

1837
01:30:58,520 --> 01:31:01,519
Speaker 1: it decided a cancelation was the best option. And there

1838
01:31:01,560 --> 01:31:03,840
Speaker 1: you go. That's the update from One Bills Live. John

1839
01:31:03,920 --> 01:31:07,519
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker getting read ready for our number three.

1840
01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: Happy to have you with U, Steve, you're ready to

1841
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:12,640
Speaker 1: go on our number three. Let's go. Let's go with

1842
01:31:12,720 --> 01:31:15,479
Speaker 1: our guest, a former agent in the NFL. He is

1843
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: now the CBS Sports NFL Contract and salary cap expert.

1844
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:20,960
Speaker 1: Happy to have Joe Corey on the line with us,

1845
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 1: some old Joel. Thanks coming on, Oh, thanks for having me.

1846
01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:26,760
Speaker 1: Good to have you here. Good to talk about something

1847
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:30,880
Speaker 1: other than the current pandemic. Hey, you might be able

1848
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 1: to direct us in the right direction here, Steve and

1849
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:35,640
Speaker 1: I watching the Bills free agent signings. A lot of

1850
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 1: one one year deals, especially a couple of two year deals.

1851
01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: Obviously there's a benefit to teams. Why are more teams

1852
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:45,759
Speaker 1: doing that though? And is that in fact a trend

1853
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:47,600
Speaker 1: in the NFL one and two year deals? What do

1854
01:31:47,680 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 1: you think there were? Shorter deals is a trend Generally, players,

1855
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:55,360
Speaker 1: at least some of the high end ones this year,

1856
01:31:55,439 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 1: wanted shorter deals no more than three years as well,

1857
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:02,519
Speaker 1: just because the expectation as a salary cap is going

1858
01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:07,559
Speaker 1: to increase significantly once there's a seventeenth game, the player

1859
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 1: percentage will go up. New TV deals and gambling money

1860
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 1: is in and for the Bills, particularly if you're going

1861
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:16,880
Speaker 1: to sign a couple of older players like a Josh Norman,

1862
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:20,200
Speaker 1: you don't want them signed into longer term deals. You

1863
01:32:20,200 --> 01:32:23,920
Speaker 1: don't have the flexibility to retool your roster how to

1864
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:27,120
Speaker 1: go forward basis, especially since Tom Brady's no longer in

1865
01:32:27,160 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: a division and the Bills appear to be the odds

1866
01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 1: on favor to win the AFC East. Well, you've got

1867
01:32:34,240 --> 01:32:37,560
Speaker 1: also got some some other considerations. We voted on a

1868
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:40,719
Speaker 1: CBA just a few weeks ago, seems like a lifetime

1869
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,320
Speaker 1: ago now now that has been brought into question as

1870
01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: well with the language that was changed, ostensibly by by

1871
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:48,960
Speaker 1: the union as to what the players actually voted on.

1872
01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:51,839
Speaker 1: What's the status of that and how does that affect

1873
01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:56,599
Speaker 1: the business side of the NFL going forward. Well, I'm

1874
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:01,080
Speaker 1: assuming the NFLPA and NFL gonna look at that. It's

1875
01:33:01,160 --> 01:33:05,080
Speaker 1: just a minor nuisance. It doesn't appear that anything was

1876
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 1: materially changed. I think that Eric Reid is going to

1877
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:15,400
Speaker 1: have a hard time prevailing in his attempts to unravel

1878
01:33:15,439 --> 01:33:20,519
Speaker 1: the CBA. Joe Kryer Guess said, Joel, Um, what do

1879
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:23,320
Speaker 1: you think of the new CBA? It seemed it was

1880
01:33:23,439 --> 01:33:26,400
Speaker 1: pretty much weighted towards the teams. Maybe not though, What

1881
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,400
Speaker 1: do you think of the new CBA and who gets

1882
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 1: the advantage based on this new agreement? Well, compared to

1883
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:36,439
Speaker 1: twenty eleven CBA, it's great, but that's a little barter

1884
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:42,360
Speaker 1: to clear. I'm not necessarily sure the players exploited their

1885
01:33:42,520 --> 01:33:46,479
Speaker 1: leverage fully for the seventeenth game that the league so

1886
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:52,040
Speaker 1: desperately wanted. I'm not overly enthusiastic about the revenue split

1887
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:56,879
Speaker 1: stalling once you get to the seventeenth game and doesn't

1888
01:33:57,439 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 1: have a chance to really increase the latter parts of

1889
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: the CBA since this agreement runs through the twenty thirty season,

1890
01:34:05,400 --> 01:34:07,760
Speaker 1: And that's another issue in of itself. Why are you

1891
01:34:07,920 --> 01:34:14,160
Speaker 1: signing a CBA which basically runs for eleven years? No

1892
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 1: player outside of Tyron Smith signs a contract that long,

1893
01:34:18,720 --> 01:34:22,960
Speaker 1: and CBAS and other leagues haven't opt out if they're

1894
01:34:23,040 --> 01:34:26,840
Speaker 1: really more than five, six, seven years. So the fact

1895
01:34:26,920 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 1: that you have gotten labored piece for that long is

1896
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 1: great for the NFL, and I think that's not over

1897
01:34:32,920 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 1: time going to proved to be something that the players

1898
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:39,840
Speaker 1: will regret. There's also been some talk Joel as to

1899
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 1: the fact that nobody can do physicals, nobody can travel

1900
01:34:43,640 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 1: to physically sign their contracts, and it's all pending all

1901
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: the things that have to happen when you are able

1902
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 1: to get together physically. Is there any thought or any concern.

1903
01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:57,040
Speaker 1: I know it's been brought up by some people that

1904
01:34:57,200 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 1: none of these contracts are binding until they are are signed. So,

1905
01:35:02,360 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: for instance, a team could back out of a free

1906
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:08,240
Speaker 1: agent contract they've already agreed to if they if the

1907
01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:12,840
Speaker 1: draft comes and goes and they haven't got that contract signed. Yeah,

1908
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:15,519
Speaker 1: that's a real consideration. What we did see before you

1909
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:19,679
Speaker 1: basically had a lockdown in most places across the country

1910
01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:25,560
Speaker 1: that there were some independent doctors where people were located

1911
01:35:26,120 --> 01:35:28,760
Speaker 1: that would do physicals, which would substitute for the team

1912
01:35:28,800 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 1: doctor doing the physical. And I know there are some

1913
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:36,440
Speaker 1: agents that really haggled with teams over the language, particularly

1914
01:35:36,520 --> 01:35:42,000
Speaker 1: on signing bonuses, because they've contended on passing physical on

1915
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:44,680
Speaker 1: what would qualify for a player to get paid, to

1916
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:48,720
Speaker 1: signing bonus because what your bigger concern was that if

1917
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:51,800
Speaker 1: he didn't pass the physical, then you're you potentially could

1918
01:35:51,800 --> 01:35:54,200
Speaker 1: be bound to a contract where you forfeit the signing

1919
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:56,880
Speaker 1: bonus because you didn't satisfy the conditions, but the remainder

1920
01:35:57,080 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 1: contract state and effect. But we saw with Michael Brockers

1921
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 1: that if a team wants to get out of a contract,

1922
01:36:05,160 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: they can by essentially failing a gallon a physical. With

1923
01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:12,680
Speaker 1: Joe Corey, a former NFL player agent, I want to

1924
01:36:12,680 --> 01:36:15,720
Speaker 1: ask you, Joe about a particular contract. The Bills deal

1925
01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:20,000
Speaker 1: with Stefan Diggs. They assumed Minnesota's old deal with them

1926
01:36:20,080 --> 01:36:23,800
Speaker 1: four years left, eleven twelve million dollars per season. Yes,

1927
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: he's underpaid compared to the top receivers in the game.

1928
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:29,040
Speaker 1: But some people thought that as soon as the trade

1929
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,720
Speaker 1: was made, the Bills might have gotten to work on

1930
01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 1: an extension of that deal. I don't I don't know.

1931
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:37,800
Speaker 1: I thought that. I think that's premature. What do you think? No,

1932
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:40,120
Speaker 1: you're right, it is premature. The inks barely dried on

1933
01:36:40,200 --> 01:36:43,000
Speaker 1: the extension. It was a five year extension that he signed,

1934
01:36:43,320 --> 01:36:46,000
Speaker 1: and he's got four new years left, so he's played

1935
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: one new year. Yeah, it is below market for what

1936
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:52,439
Speaker 1: he did last year, but at the time when he

1937
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 1: signed the deal, he was considered a best one B

1938
01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:58,519
Speaker 1: to Adam Feeland's one A. The fact that Theeland was

1939
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:01,400
Speaker 1: hurt last year gave me more offunity. He is clearly

1940
01:37:01,439 --> 01:37:04,120
Speaker 1: a number one receiver with the Bills, but you don't

1941
01:37:04,240 --> 01:37:06,320
Speaker 1: care up a deal when they're four years left on

1942
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 1: it or renegotiated. We're gonna see if the Cardinals do

1943
01:37:10,439 --> 01:37:13,519
Speaker 1: something with Andre Hopkins. He has three years left. There

1944
01:37:13,600 --> 01:37:15,920
Speaker 1: is a precedent for doing something or three years left.

1945
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,040
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown had something done with three years left on

1946
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:22,479
Speaker 1: his deal for his trade to Oakland. Never played a

1947
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:26,120
Speaker 1: down on that deal. But four years that's a bit

1948
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:28,960
Speaker 1: much to be starting a deal on Reni gooching a deal,

1949
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:32,519
Speaker 1: particularly when you barely played on the deal. I gotta

1950
01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: ask you a little bit about the trade market. Certainly

1951
01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:38,000
Speaker 1: janikin Goquay is on the trade block. We've heard also

1952
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: guys like Andy Dalton would be on the trade block.

1953
01:37:40,320 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: Aj Green was franchised because he's unhappy in Cincinnati. And

1954
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:47,760
Speaker 1: you know there's also guys at those positions that are

1955
01:37:47,800 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 1: out in free agency, which probably undermines the ability of

1956
01:37:50,600 --> 01:37:53,360
Speaker 1: teams or undermines their desire to go out and trade

1957
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 1: for guys like that. What about the trade market now

1958
01:37:55,600 --> 01:37:58,640
Speaker 1: and these last few maybe big name free agents that

1959
01:37:58,720 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: are still out there, like like Jadeveon Clowney and the

1960
01:38:02,160 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 1: like and the guys who are on the block for trades.

1961
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:07,160
Speaker 1: How do you see this playing out under the current

1962
01:38:07,320 --> 01:38:13,720
Speaker 1: pandemic uncertain preseason coming up? Clowney may end up going

1963
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:16,120
Speaker 1: back to Seattle on a one year deal because he's

1964
01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 1: a guy where you really the physical is going to

1965
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:21,160
Speaker 1: be important because he had a microfracture when he was

1966
01:38:21,200 --> 01:38:24,080
Speaker 1: in Houston that had the core injury he played through

1967
01:38:24,240 --> 01:38:28,120
Speaker 1: last year, So the medicals are going to make you

1968
01:38:28,240 --> 01:38:30,479
Speaker 1: more comfortable if you want to commit the huge money

1969
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:33,120
Speaker 1: he's looking for. And last year, my understanding or as

1970
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:34,720
Speaker 1: he wanted to be in the twenty million dollars per

1971
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:38,720
Speaker 1: year club for nine quarterbacks, I doubt that's changed. So

1972
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:41,559
Speaker 1: his best bet may be signing the one year deal

1973
01:38:42,120 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 1: with m Seattle and then going out and finally having

1974
01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:50,519
Speaker 1: a double digit sack season and going from there. You

1975
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:54,560
Speaker 1: have two franchise players who are the biggest trade candidates,

1976
01:38:54,600 --> 01:38:58,000
Speaker 1: both defensive Alignment and Gooey. As you mentioned, and also

1977
01:38:58,120 --> 01:39:01,559
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, because I'm optical that Kansas City can pay

1978
01:39:01,680 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 1: two pass rushers or defensive linemen over twenty million dollars

1979
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:09,040
Speaker 1: per year. That also pay Patrick Mahomes, the biggest quarter

1980
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:13,360
Speaker 1: contractor we've ever seen in league history. And you've got

1981
01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:17,240
Speaker 1: a glut of quarterbacks available, which hurts Andy Dalton. And

1982
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason that Cam Newton wasn't traded

1983
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:23,080
Speaker 1: and was released. He had the physical issues as well,

1984
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 1: So I don't know who's gonna trade Prandy Dalton, Joe

1985
01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:31,240
Speaker 1: Placco guy released. Newton was released, so I could see

1986
01:39:31,280 --> 01:39:33,960
Speaker 1: Cincinnati kind of squatting on him for a while. It

1987
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:36,720
Speaker 1: didn't surprise me A J. Gleen was franchis. He didn't

1988
01:39:36,760 --> 01:39:39,200
Speaker 1: play it down last year. But I really wouldn't want

1989
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton there from bringing in Joe Burrow because if

1990
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:45,600
Speaker 1: Burrow struggles, like a lot of young quarterbacks, dude, the

1991
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: temptation would be to play him spos, letting Burrow take

1992
01:39:49,080 --> 01:39:52,720
Speaker 1: his lumps. So I think eventually Dalton gets cut Hey,

1993
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jacksonville and Yannick and got Quay who it

1994
01:39:55,920 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 1: would seem they're ready to trade him, and you mentioned

1995
01:39:58,120 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 1: that you think the trade for Clark is pretty much

1996
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: a model of what Jacksonville should request. Tell me how

1997
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:05,560
Speaker 1: that works, said Joel, what do you think? How do

1998
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:09,880
Speaker 1: you think I will work in this case? Well, Jacksonville

1999
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:13,639
Speaker 1: is also looking at how they were patient last year

2000
01:40:13,680 --> 01:40:18,040
Speaker 1: with Jalen Ramsey and got a king's ransom, So they're

2001
01:40:18,080 --> 01:40:20,719
Speaker 1: not going to give in Doc way away. What they're

2002
01:40:20,800 --> 01:40:23,599
Speaker 1: going to do, most likely in the timing is probably

2003
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:26,200
Speaker 1: right before the draft. That's when Frank Clark was trained.

2004
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:29,400
Speaker 1: She went for a basically a first in a second

2005
01:40:31,120 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: and you had to force Buttner recently go from San

2006
01:40:34,479 --> 01:40:39,160
Speaker 1: Francisco to Indianapolis for first. So somewhere along those lines

2007
01:40:39,160 --> 01:40:42,320
Speaker 1: will probably be the range of compensation. What you don't

2008
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:45,640
Speaker 1: want to do is do what Bill O'Brien did. Now

2009
01:40:45,760 --> 01:40:48,760
Speaker 1: there's that July fifteen deadline for franchise players to sign

2010
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:51,799
Speaker 1: long term deals. You don't try to trade a franchise

2011
01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:55,000
Speaker 1: player once the possibility of signing a long term deal

2012
01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:58,080
Speaker 1: is done, because it basically becomes a fire sale for

2013
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:01,000
Speaker 1: the team because nobody's going to give you something significant

2014
01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:03,639
Speaker 1: when they can't sign him till the long term. Doing

2015
01:41:03,680 --> 01:41:06,880
Speaker 1: it potential one year rental. So I expect any trade

2016
01:41:06,960 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 1: to be done, probably right before the draft. How do

2017
01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:15,640
Speaker 1: you think the current situation with a pandemic and all that.

2018
01:41:15,760 --> 01:41:18,320
Speaker 1: What's your gut feeling about how much affected the off

2019
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:21,599
Speaker 1: season will be and subsequently the regular season. What's your

2020
01:41:21,600 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 1: gut feeling on what you know, how the schedule is

2021
01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:28,840
Speaker 1: going to work out. The off season is gonna to

2022
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: me mimic what happened in twenty eleven when we had

2023
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:34,840
Speaker 1: to lock out. There was nothing until the lockout ended,

2024
01:41:34,880 --> 01:41:38,680
Speaker 1: and basically everyone first got together for training camp. So

2025
01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:41,479
Speaker 1: it would not surprise me if you have no off

2026
01:41:41,520 --> 01:41:44,400
Speaker 1: season program and the first time you see teams fully

2027
01:41:44,439 --> 01:41:47,360
Speaker 1: together in one place will be whenever they report the

2028
01:41:47,439 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 1: training camp into July early August. That is, if we

2029
01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:55,280
Speaker 1: get everything under control so life gets back to normal

2030
01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:59,800
Speaker 1: around that time. If not, then we could see a

2031
01:42:00,120 --> 01:42:02,920
Speaker 1: delay of the NFL season starting. I think they're being

2032
01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:06,759
Speaker 1: a little overly optimistic in terms of their projections, particularly

2033
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 1: having fans at stadiums, because I wouldn't. I'm not going

2034
01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:12,920
Speaker 1: to an NFL game if we have them this year

2035
01:42:13,479 --> 01:42:15,559
Speaker 1: until I know that the person would be sitting next

2036
01:42:15,600 --> 01:42:19,599
Speaker 1: to me doesn't doesn't have the coronavirus. I'm not putting

2037
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:21,680
Speaker 1: myself in that position, and I'm sure a lot of

2038
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 1: the people probably doing the same way. I wonder, with

2039
01:42:26,080 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 1: that in mind, when does the NFL have to alter

2040
01:42:29,320 --> 01:42:32,080
Speaker 1: their formula. I mean, they say they're pressing ahead with

2041
01:42:32,240 --> 01:42:34,840
Speaker 1: a full regular season. Is there a drop dead date

2042
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:37,600
Speaker 1: when they'd have to figure out maybe another plan? Do

2043
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:41,320
Speaker 1: you think, Joel Well, I think we're a good couple

2044
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:43,240
Speaker 1: of months away from having a drop dead date. But

2045
01:42:43,320 --> 01:42:46,640
Speaker 1: we've seen so far it's a business as usual for

2046
01:42:46,720 --> 01:42:50,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. Some people thought that free agencies should have

2047
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:52,400
Speaker 1: been delayed. There's been a lot of voices that they

2048
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:56,439
Speaker 1: should delay the draft. I'm very skeptical that they're gonna

2049
01:42:56,479 --> 01:43:00,680
Speaker 1: be games with fans because the NBA is intent on

2050
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:05,120
Speaker 1: trying to resume their season, and from everything Adam Silver

2051
01:43:05,240 --> 01:43:09,960
Speaker 1: has been indicating, it won't be in front of fans. Well,

2052
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 1: the NFL went ahead and had their free agency time.

2053
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 1: They've kept that on schedule. They're going to keep the

2054
01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:18,000
Speaker 1: draft on schedule. But do you think there has been

2055
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:21,519
Speaker 1: a significant effect on the players who were signed the

2056
01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:23,560
Speaker 1: players who were not signed. Did you think that the

2057
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:27,000
Speaker 1: teams are shying away from big contracts, maybe from the

2058
01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 1: owner's perspective, because they don't want to pay out, you know,

2059
01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 1: as to exaggerate, to make a point. They don't want

2060
01:43:32,240 --> 01:43:35,080
Speaker 1: to pay out a twenty million dollars signing bonus for

2061
01:43:35,200 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 1: a guy who probably who may not play in twenty

2062
01:43:37,920 --> 01:43:41,479
Speaker 1: twenty because the schedule doesn't happen. I mean, how much

2063
01:43:41,479 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 1: of an effect has all this had on what actually

2064
01:43:44,120 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 1: did happen. No, I don't think you had much of

2065
01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:49,240
Speaker 1: the effect, because the first wave of free agency was

2066
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 1: like has always been, it was a seller's market, and

2067
01:43:52,240 --> 01:43:54,759
Speaker 1: then once they ANDed, it quickly became a buyer's market.

2068
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:57,160
Speaker 1: And if you didn't get your money, then you're probably

2069
01:43:57,200 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: not gonna get it. Jameis Winston looks like he's going

2070
01:44:00,479 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: to be a backup someplace, and as I said earlier, clown,

2071
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 1: he's probably signing a one year deal. You saw a

2072
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:09,360
Speaker 1: guy like Todd Gurley who got cut. He quickly signed

2073
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:11,640
Speaker 1: a one year deal for I think it's five to

2074
01:44:11,720 --> 01:44:15,800
Speaker 1: six million. The contract hasn't been finalized totally yet because

2075
01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:19,760
Speaker 1: of the lack of physical So it always stands that

2076
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 1: if you don't get your money and free agency in

2077
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:24,639
Speaker 1: the first couple of games, is are you're not gonna

2078
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:27,519
Speaker 1: get it. The franchise tag players will get paid. The

2079
01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 1: Woods who signed long term deals, those will be the

2080
01:44:30,439 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: biggest deals that come in. And then a couple of

2081
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:37,600
Speaker 1: the extensions like Herey counsil that Texans have started negotiating

2082
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:40,680
Speaker 1: with him. He's got all the leverage, so he might

2083
01:44:40,760 --> 01:44:43,160
Speaker 1: as well just hand Larmy Counsio a blank contract and

2084
01:44:43,200 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 1: have him bill it out right. I saw that tweet

2085
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: about Tunsil and that's what you said. I think it

2086
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 1: was yesterday, Joel, and everybody's looking at how Bill Brian

2087
01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:57,240
Speaker 1: may have blown the trade that was made, But the

2088
01:44:57,360 --> 01:45:00,559
Speaker 1: Tunsil deal doesn't look so good several months later, ten

2089
01:45:00,600 --> 01:45:04,360
Speaker 1: months later, does it? No? Because what you what you

2090
01:45:04,439 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 1: should do as a team is if you give up

2091
01:45:07,320 --> 01:45:14,000
Speaker 1: significant assets, and the Texans gave up more than any

2092
01:45:14,240 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 1: nine quarterback has gone for in a trade outside of

2093
01:45:17,160 --> 01:45:20,120
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack in this century, you need to get the

2094
01:45:20,280 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 1: deal done at that time because if you don't do that,

2095
01:45:24,280 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: you basically hand the player the hammer. When we've seen

2096
01:45:27,800 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 1: the Dallas is suffering from that as well. They had

2097
01:45:31,280 --> 01:45:33,639
Speaker 1: a whole season and a half to get something done.

2098
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 1: A Maury Cooper and Dick and if they had gotten

2099
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 1: that deal done with him before Michael Thomas and Julio

2100
01:45:41,160 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: Jones signed extensions. He's not a twenty million dollars per

2101
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,760
Speaker 1: year player. The more of the story, generally is the

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Speaker 1: longer you wait for good the great player, the more

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Speaker 1: it is gonna cost you. And particularly when you give

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Speaker 1: up a ton of stuff to get a guy, you

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Speaker 1: almost have to do a deal with him. So you're

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Speaker 1: at the player's mercy. I gotta ask you too, as

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Speaker 1: this offseason comes down to a close. It's very rare,

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Speaker 1: but it happened this offseason. We had a ton of

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks out on the free agent market. You know, Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, Cam Newton is now out there. Jamis Winston's

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Speaker 1: now out there. There are more quarterbacks than there seems

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Speaker 1: to be teams that are looking for a quarterback. How

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Speaker 1: do you think that Cam Newton, Jamis Winston? What's the

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Speaker 1: landing spot for those two guys. I've never seen anything

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Speaker 1: like this in terms of supplying to man quarterbacks. Usually,

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Speaker 1: if you get one quarterback who is a quality starter

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Speaker 1: out there, that's a rarity. But to have basically a

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Speaker 1: Smortgese board where was like well, I can go old Guy,

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Speaker 1: I can go Guy as prime, I can go Guy.

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Speaker 1: Used to be a starter, there was a backup. It

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Speaker 1: was basically whatever you wanted you could pretty much find.

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Speaker 1: This year, the obvious landing spot for Cam Newton is

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, but they seem to be content with Tyrode

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Speaker 1: Taylor as their starter. I'd take a healthy Cam Newton

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Speaker 1: over Tyrode Taylor eight days in the week, even though

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Speaker 1: only seven in a week. Jamis, I think he probably

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Speaker 1: needs to find a backup spot where there's a vulnerable starter.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's all that available. Washington seems to

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Speaker 1: be comfortable with Dwayne Haskins, and they traded for Kyle Holland,

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Speaker 1: who didn't look all that good in Carolina last year.

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Speaker 1: Maybe and if he can't find one of those, maybe

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Speaker 1: he goes someplace where he can sit behind an older

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Speaker 1: starter for a year and pick his brain and hopefully

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Speaker 1: learned something called turnover. Avoid it in Pittsburgh might be

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Speaker 1: a spot for him. Joel, I got one more for you,

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Speaker 1: and it's kind of a long term question about the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo pill. Steve and I my partner here, we've talked

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Speaker 1: a lot in recent weeks about an apparent bill strategy

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Speaker 1: to build a good team. While ash Allen is on

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Speaker 1: his rookie contract, he won't be there forever. How do

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Speaker 1: you transition into the next space, Say, Josh Allen's doing well,

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Speaker 1: you want to keep around. You want to reward him

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Speaker 1: with a good market level contract, And what's the model

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Speaker 1: for doing that? The right way or the wrong way?

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Speaker 1: It seems to me we talked about this, Steve and I.

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Speaker 1: The wrong way might be to do what the rams

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Speaker 1: did you get yourself from trouble. That way? The right

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Speaker 1: way maybe to do what the Seattle Seahawks have done.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, Seattle's the ideal situation in

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Speaker 1: terms of taking advantage of the window of opportunity you

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Speaker 1: have when your quarterback is at his cheapest And you

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Speaker 1: guys did a great job of cleaning up the cap

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Speaker 1: with all the dead money a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: so you had a ton of cap room. This year,

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Speaker 1: you haven't gone hog wild spending it, so you still

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Speaker 1: have cap room available that you can carry over to

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Speaker 1: next year. I think it's like about twenty three right now.

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Speaker 1: How much more that you're going to spend. I would

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Speaker 1: get your young your young cornerback White done sooner rather

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Speaker 1: than later. I'd want to get him done before Jalen

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Speaker 1: Ramsey because Jalen Ramsey is in the same situation as

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Speaker 1: Laramie Thumpsil no deal done, he gave up significant access

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Speaker 1: for trades. He's gonna dratically reset the cornerback market, which

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Speaker 1: has already taken a jump this year with Darius Slay

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Speaker 1: and um Byron Jones. Nobody's going to confuse Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: with for young Jim Kelly right now, so the jury

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Speaker 1: is still out on him. Um. You just have to

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Speaker 1: hope that he's not the second coming of Marcus Mariota

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Speaker 1: and he develops into your long term quarterback and we're

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Speaker 1: not worried about that. But I see, I see why

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Speaker 1: you say that. And Joel, thanks, stay healthy, Thanks coming

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Speaker 1: on the show, are you too? Thanks for having me guys,

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Speaker 1: Thank God. Toe Corey a farmer sports agent and does

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Speaker 1: NFL contracts and salary camp writing for CBS Sports dot

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Speaker 1: Com and others. Um, it's funny. See the more you

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Speaker 1: know you talked to a lot of people we have

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Speaker 1: over recent months, especially the wide variance of opinions. I'm

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. You know what I mean, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: everybody has to, you know, drink the kool a. But

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Speaker 1: it's interesting that some people have more doubts about him

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Speaker 1: than we do. Certainly, he is the most Yeah, be

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Speaker 1: a hard pressed to think of and I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: think of one now at the top of my head

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Speaker 1: of a more polarizing player in the league, good or bad. Right, Certainly,

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Speaker 1: Bill's fans and there and there are those who pre

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Speaker 1: draft called Josh a great player and was going to

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Speaker 1: be a great player. You and I have seen his

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Speaker 1: steady progress over the first two years full years of

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Speaker 1: his career, but yet there's still those people who do

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Speaker 1: not want to be wrong about him being a bust.

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Speaker 1: He still polarizes a lot of people, and there are

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Speaker 1: still those out there who don't believe in him. I

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Speaker 1: think you and I both have high hopes for him.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of faith in his ability to

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Speaker 1: improve and his direction of improvement. Certainly, he's not a

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Speaker 1: finished product, but man, oh man, is he a different

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Speaker 1: guy today than he was at the start of this

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Speaker 1: last season. And he was just a different guy at

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Speaker 1: the start of this last season than he was at

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Speaker 1: the start of the season before that. Um, he's come

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Speaker 1: so far and I and I see more in him,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm you know, I'm fully I'm fully happy

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Speaker 1: to you know, give the guys to give the guy

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Speaker 1: the key, the keys of the car and trust him

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Speaker 1: to drive it. I just I'm there and now, certainly

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Speaker 1: I know there are better quarterbacks out there. Sure, but

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Speaker 1: man oh man, he's still headed up and we can't

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Speaker 1: see his top end yet. That's right, That's why I feel.

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Speaker 1: All right, we got a break here and we come back.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to the folks from Connect Life

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Speaker 1: about a blood drive, a very important blood drive in

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Speaker 1: the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 1: when we come back right here on the show. The

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Speaker 1: show continues One Bill's Life, presented by Kalidah Health. We're

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Speaker 1: coming to you from our homes once again. We're radio

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Speaker 1: only and this is Buffalo Bill's reading wecom back one

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Speaker 1: of BILS Live. Steve Task along with John Murphy Murphers,

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Speaker 1: just popped off the Internet for just a minute. He'll

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Speaker 1: be back on to join us. We're about to be

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Speaker 1: joined by Amanda Farrell, director of blood donor recruitment for

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Speaker 1: Connect Life. You might have heard it, and by its

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Speaker 1: former naming units, they are a group of nonprofit that

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Speaker 1: works in eight counties and gets blood donations. You can

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Speaker 1: imagine with the current pandemic situation around our country, it

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Speaker 1: has been a rough time for people who are trying

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Speaker 1: to do this type of work. We are pleased now

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Speaker 1: Murphy's back on the line with us. Murphy, I just

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Speaker 1: I just introduced Amanda Farrell and Amanda's on the line

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Speaker 1: with us. Amanda, can you hear us John Murphy, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker here in one Bills Live. How are you? I

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Speaker 1: can hear you that afternoon. How are you? We're doing

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Speaker 1: really well. I gotta start by your finding out well. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I didn't know you

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Speaker 1: were coming on today until yesterday, and I'd already made

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Speaker 1: my pointment. I went in and donated blood in the

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Speaker 1: I think it's the Orchard Park office there on Union Road.

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Speaker 1: Is that right? Yes? It is? Yeah, Yeah, I gave.

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Speaker 1: I went in last night and I was well taken

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Speaker 1: care of. Its nice, it was well run. I was

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Speaker 1: pretty happy. I give us an idea of how sharp

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Speaker 1: the drop off perhaps has been since this pandemic hit us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, since it hit us, really, I guess just

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Speaker 1: two short weeks ago, though sometimes it feels like two months, right,

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Speaker 1: We have had from that time through the end of

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Speaker 1: April about eighty five blood drives cancel, which is roughly

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Speaker 1: about two thousand units of blood that we would have

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Speaker 1: potentially lost from those. So, you know, with kind of

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Speaker 1: the cooperation in support of our media partners, we've been

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Speaker 1: able to really reach out and in true Buffalo fashion,

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Speaker 1: our Western New York community has really answered the call

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Speaker 1: and has helped to make sure that we have currently

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Speaker 1: a stable blood supply at our hospitals. What are some

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Speaker 1: of the things you're doing to get people more aware?

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Speaker 1: Certainly everybody's kind of sitting at home, most of them,

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Speaker 1: you know, watching TV at some point throughout the day.

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Speaker 1: Is that most of what you're doing or are you

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Speaker 1: trying to get to maybe some local politicians that with

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01:54:09,240 --> 01:54:11,760
Speaker 1: press conferences that kind of thing to get the message out? Well,

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01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: what's the OD strategy? Yeah, I think a little bit

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Speaker 1: of everything. You know, we really need to educate people

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Speaker 1: and the fact that donating blood is safe and it's needed.

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Speaker 1: You know, having a ready blood supply is essential to

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Speaker 1: any disaster. Preparedness or a pandemic. So I think I'm

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Speaker 1: really educating folks, letting people know the steps we're taking

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Speaker 1: to make sure that things are clean and safe, things

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Speaker 1: like requiring appointments so we can adequately space out donors

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Speaker 1: as well as you know, I think a variety of

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Speaker 1: ways you are with the media, social media as well

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Speaker 1: as we've had some great print partners in our outlying

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Speaker 1: areas too, Amanda. What makes us, I'm sure difficult for

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Speaker 1: you and your group at Connect Life is this April

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Speaker 1: first to start today National Donate Life Month rights and

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Speaker 1: you're still going to honor that, You're still going to

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Speaker 1: observe that this year it is, yes, a lot of

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Speaker 1: that will be virtual and you know with effected as

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Speaker 1: you said, people are sitting at home. Everyone is definitely

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Speaker 1: on social media. So we can celebrate and on our

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Speaker 1: Donate Life months virtually or you can celebrate it, you know,

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Speaker 1: in person by making an appointment to come and donate

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Speaker 1: blood as well. We're now how many locations do you have?

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Speaker 1: What precautions should people take before they come in? Is

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Speaker 1: there anything special they need to do to prepare? And

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Speaker 1: how easy is it just kind of maybe to show

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Speaker 1: up and donate blood. Is that possible? You give us

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01:55:28,840 --> 01:55:31,800
Speaker 1: the kind of the ins and outs of what it takes. Sure,

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01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:33,720
Speaker 1: so you know, at this point in time, we are

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Speaker 1: requiring people to make appointments and that's again for our

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Speaker 1: staff and donor health and safety. We want to make

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Speaker 1: sure we have enough time to clean and disinfect every

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Speaker 1: surface in between our donors, as well as space out

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Speaker 1: enough so that we can maintain that six feet of

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01:55:47,560 --> 01:55:50,840
Speaker 1: social distance between our draw chairs and our donor weight time.

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Speaker 1: So we do know that a lot of from feedback

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Speaker 1: from our donors, a lot of our appointments really up

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01:55:57,160 --> 01:56:00,720
Speaker 1: and through next week are full. So you know, sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's challenging. Folks want to do something now to make

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Speaker 1: an impact, but we really encourage you to look out

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Speaker 1: into the next two weeks to several weeks. You know,

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Speaker 1: collecting blood is going to be a marathon, not a sprint,

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Speaker 1: and we really want people to consider, you know, whenever

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Speaker 1: they want to get out of their house in the

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Speaker 1: next several weeks, think of us and come on and

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Speaker 1: get out to donate blood. Yea, I guess I never

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Speaker 1: thought of this, Mandy, but you probably do have to

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Speaker 1: have a regular sustaining number of donations every month, regardless

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Speaker 1: of whether it's a you know, April or whatever. And

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Speaker 1: when it's interrupted by something like the virus like this

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Speaker 1: or something else that it throws you guys off schedule. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, blood is not a renewable resource. It has

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Speaker 1: a shelf life of forty two days. So we need

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Speaker 1: a constant collection to make sure that blood is on

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Speaker 1: the shelf for our hospitals. You know, if that blood

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01:56:44,680 --> 01:56:47,600
Speaker 1: isn't on the shelf, all the all the medical personnel,

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01:56:47,640 --> 01:56:49,480
Speaker 1: all the technology in the world is no good. If

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01:56:49,520 --> 01:56:53,320
Speaker 1: we don't have that blood on the shelf, Well, what's

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01:56:53,440 --> 01:56:56,400
Speaker 1: next on and how is it going? Is this good?

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01:56:56,440 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 1: I hope this helps to get more people in, But

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01:56:58,720 --> 01:57:01,760
Speaker 1: like how many I mean for an eight county area

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01:57:01,840 --> 01:57:04,520
Speaker 1: like you serve, how many units are we talking about

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01:57:04,520 --> 01:57:06,480
Speaker 1: that actually go out in or use not that go

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01:57:06,680 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 1: bad that you don't use that you know in case

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01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 1: it you know, you don't have a run on that

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01:57:12,080 --> 01:57:15,200
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But how much do you take in

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01:57:16,080 --> 01:57:20,200
Speaker 1: and how much is needed by the medical community. Yeah,

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01:57:20,280 --> 01:57:23,080
Speaker 1: So you know, that's important for folks to know because

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01:57:23,240 --> 01:57:25,440
Speaker 1: it's really a huge volume. And like I said, it's

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01:57:25,440 --> 01:57:28,680
Speaker 1: not a renewable resource. So Connect Life supplies about eighty

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01:57:28,720 --> 01:57:31,040
Speaker 1: percent of the blood needed by all the hospitals in

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01:57:31,160 --> 01:57:34,120
Speaker 1: Western New York, and everything that we collect does stay

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01:57:34,200 --> 01:57:37,880
Speaker 1: here locally, So we supply our hospitals just over thirty

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01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:41,480
Speaker 1: five thousand units of red blood cells on a yearly basis,

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01:57:42,000 --> 01:57:44,760
Speaker 1: and that's throughout the year, so it really is a

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01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:47,480
Speaker 1: huge number. And when a virus like this comes up

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01:57:47,600 --> 01:57:50,440
Speaker 1: or something that really impacts people not donating, you know,

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01:57:50,600 --> 01:57:52,920
Speaker 1: just a few days to a week's time span and

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01:57:53,040 --> 01:57:55,879
Speaker 1: not being able to collect could be detrimental for our hospitals.

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Speaker 1: Amanda Farrell, our guest, Connect the Line Director of Blood

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Speaker 1: donor Registration. Amanda, it's important to note that you do

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01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:06,240
Speaker 1: this by appointment only now right, Even all your locations

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01:58:06,280 --> 01:58:08,080
Speaker 1: appear open, but you got to make an appointment to

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01:58:08,120 --> 01:58:11,200
Speaker 1: donate blood now, right. We do, and we encourage people

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01:58:12,520 --> 01:58:15,160
Speaker 1: again to check our website for eligibility. They can always

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01:58:15,200 --> 01:58:17,480
Speaker 1: call our office too, But we really require that people

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01:58:17,920 --> 01:58:20,280
Speaker 1: feel healthy and well, you know, if you are healthy,

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01:58:20,360 --> 01:58:22,480
Speaker 1: this is something you can do to give back in

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01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:25,360
Speaker 1: this time where kind of everyone is a little uncertain

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01:58:25,400 --> 01:58:29,480
Speaker 1: and uneasy. Donating blood is a really safe way that

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01:58:29,640 --> 01:58:31,240
Speaker 1: you can help to give back and help to make

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01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:36,440
Speaker 1: sure that our community stays healthy. And I guess another

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01:58:36,480 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: important thing a vote. It's important in some respect. What

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Speaker 1: You've got a special donation coming up a week from today,

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01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:46,160
Speaker 1: A Big Ditch brewing company in Buffalo, right, we do.

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01:58:46,320 --> 01:58:47,920
Speaker 1: So that's been really great too. You know, it's not

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01:58:48,040 --> 01:58:50,680
Speaker 1: only our awesome blood donors, but it's again, like I said,

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01:58:50,720 --> 01:58:53,040
Speaker 1: our Western New York community and true fashion. We have

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01:58:53,240 --> 01:58:55,560
Speaker 1: some really great um I guess you would say non

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01:58:55,600 --> 01:58:59,440
Speaker 1: traditional partners to our blood bank. We've got Big Ditch Brewing.

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01:59:00,120 --> 01:59:02,800
Speaker 1: We've been working with Hamburg Brewing as well as Crosby's

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01:59:02,840 --> 01:59:05,880
Speaker 1: Convenience Stories in some other places where if they are

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01:59:06,000 --> 01:59:09,040
Speaker 1: open or they do have space, you know, they're ready

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01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:11,400
Speaker 1: to open their doors to us and encourage people to

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Speaker 1: come out and donate blood there. Thanks so much, Amanda.

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01:59:15,080 --> 01:59:17,040
Speaker 1: Good luck with the blood drive. I hope, I hope

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01:59:17,080 --> 01:59:19,040
Speaker 1: we can get through this difficult time and I hope

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01:59:19,080 --> 01:59:23,840
Speaker 1: this helps. Thanks so much. Amanda Farrell is Connect Lives,

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Speaker 1: Director of Blood Owner Registration. It's it's amazing you see

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Speaker 1: how many things are affected by the coronavirus and the

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01:59:32,280 --> 01:59:34,320
Speaker 1: quarantine that you never think of I wouldn't have given

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01:59:34,320 --> 01:59:35,960
Speaker 1: that any thought, but it's a it's a big issue,

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01:59:36,000 --> 01:59:38,960
Speaker 1: right with blood donations. Yeah, with everybody staying home, they

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01:59:39,040 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 1: kind of can't. I mean cancel doctor's appointments. You cancel

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01:59:41,840 --> 01:59:44,200
Speaker 1: the haircut a point, you know, barbers or clothes, you

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01:59:44,240 --> 01:59:47,160
Speaker 1: cancel all these appointments. You never think about making an

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01:59:47,200 --> 01:59:49,880
Speaker 1: appointment to go out so that you can help out

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01:59:49,920 --> 01:59:52,320
Speaker 1: the medical industry. Listen, the medical industry needs us now

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01:59:52,440 --> 01:59:54,600
Speaker 1: as much as ever, So anything we can do to

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01:59:54,720 --> 01:59:58,720
Speaker 1: help at any level. This isn't so much about the coronaviruses.

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01:59:58,760 --> 02:00:01,000
Speaker 1: It is by keeping everybody else who needs blood up

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Speaker 1: and running as well. So it all counts and I'm

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02:00:04,240 --> 02:00:07,320
Speaker 1: hoping it helps. Let's playing a little NFL tru or False,

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02:00:07,360 --> 02:00:10,280
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese.

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02:00:10,320 --> 02:00:13,000
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Here we go? Tr False? The twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty NFL Draft will set a television ratings record. True

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02:00:17,800 --> 02:00:21,320
Speaker 1: or false? Boy, I'm inclined to say false, Steve, I

2385
02:00:21,600 --> 02:00:24,920
Speaker 1: think because it won't have the you know, the flash

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02:00:25,000 --> 02:00:27,360
Speaker 1: and dash and the excitement, and the players all dressed

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02:00:27,440 --> 02:00:29,400
Speaker 1: up in the green room and they were gonna have

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02:00:29,480 --> 02:00:32,840
Speaker 1: players on a boat crossing the moat there at the

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02:00:32,880 --> 02:00:35,720
Speaker 1: Bellagio Hotel. They're gonna make it a real Las Vegas spectacle.

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02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:38,400
Speaker 1: That won't be the case this year. I was inclined

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02:00:38,440 --> 02:00:40,880
Speaker 1: to think it probably won't have the ratings. On the

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02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:44,640
Speaker 1: other hand, people aren't going out anymore, and three weeks

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02:00:44,720 --> 02:00:46,720
Speaker 1: you don't think that'll be ended either. Maybe there will

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02:00:46,760 --> 02:00:48,600
Speaker 1: be more eyeballs watching the Draft this year. What do

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02:00:48,680 --> 02:00:51,560
Speaker 1: you think I'm gonna say? True, I think he's exactly

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02:00:51,640 --> 02:00:54,000
Speaker 1: what you just said. People are going to be ready

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02:00:54,080 --> 02:00:57,800
Speaker 1: for something live on television that is not a press conference.

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02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:02,200
Speaker 1: And I think no matter what it looks like, people

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02:01:02,240 --> 02:01:05,080
Speaker 1: will check it out just because they know it's gonna

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02:01:05,120 --> 02:01:07,280
Speaker 1: look completely different than the years we've seen it in

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02:01:07,320 --> 02:01:11,000
Speaker 1: the past. Both football fans and non football fans. People

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02:01:11,040 --> 02:01:14,680
Speaker 1: will be curious to see how it's handled, and I

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02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:17,440
Speaker 1: think that curiosity, along with the huge interests of the

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02:01:17,520 --> 02:01:20,480
Speaker 1: league generates anyway. I think because all that it may,

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02:01:20,680 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 1: it may indeed set records. I'm sure it will be. Yeah.

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02:01:25,720 --> 02:01:30,200
Speaker 1: I mean it'll be the highest rated TV program of

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02:01:30,400 --> 02:01:34,640
Speaker 1: the years so far, probably so yeah. I'm thinking it

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02:01:34,720 --> 02:01:36,920
Speaker 1: probably will set some records. You know, it always is

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Speaker 1: the highest rated, highest rated sports program in the spring,

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Speaker 1: more than NBA playoffs, certainly more than hockey playoffs. But uh,

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Speaker 1: and I think it is the appeal the draft as

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Speaker 1: the appeal as a television product of being real I TV.

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02:01:50,520 --> 02:01:53,400
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's um, it's kind of like, uh,

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02:01:53,640 --> 02:01:56,920
Speaker 1: you know one of those bachelor shows or bachelorette shows. Right,

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02:01:57,840 --> 02:02:00,200
Speaker 1: It's kind of it'll be different because it won't have

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02:02:00,360 --> 02:02:03,320
Speaker 1: the you know, as I said, the players there. But

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02:02:03,480 --> 02:02:07,000
Speaker 1: I think, look, I'm sure some smart minds at ESPN

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02:02:07,040 --> 02:02:08,960
Speaker 1: and NFL network are coming up with a plan now

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02:02:09,080 --> 02:02:11,240
Speaker 1: to make it interesting to watch. I think it could

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02:02:11,240 --> 02:02:13,560
Speaker 1: be pretty good. I think it will, and certainly you

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Speaker 1: and I are going to be riveted to it. We

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02:02:15,240 --> 02:02:17,520
Speaker 1: got no what are we going to do? Something different?

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Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna have plans at night now, we're

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02:02:19,440 --> 02:02:21,920
Speaker 1: gonna be there watching it, and we won't be alone.

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02:02:22,400 --> 02:02:24,800
Speaker 1: But I think there's a ton of people who will

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02:02:24,800 --> 02:02:29,040
Speaker 1: be for one thirsting for something other than other to watch.

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02:02:29,240 --> 02:02:31,720
Speaker 1: I mean that how much can you binge watch programs

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02:02:31,760 --> 02:02:34,000
Speaker 1: without having something new and fresh and different and live

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02:02:34,800 --> 02:02:38,560
Speaker 1: and too the fact that your team that you follow

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02:02:38,680 --> 02:02:41,160
Speaker 1: is going to be doing something that day, with the

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02:02:41,240 --> 02:02:43,320
Speaker 1: exception of the Bills who traded their first round pick.

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02:02:44,440 --> 02:02:46,600
Speaker 1: But and for the third thing is we're going to

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02:02:46,680 --> 02:02:49,840
Speaker 1: be deep into this and people are gonna be in

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02:02:49,880 --> 02:02:51,480
Speaker 1: a different spot than they are now, and I am

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02:02:51,520 --> 02:02:54,720
Speaker 1: anticipating it's more of a hungrier spot than it is

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02:02:54,840 --> 02:02:58,200
Speaker 1: now to watch something of this nature other than press

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02:02:58,280 --> 02:03:02,040
Speaker 1: conferences and news and newscasts. So I just I just

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02:03:02,240 --> 02:03:04,840
Speaker 1: think it. I don't want to go out on the

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02:03:04,880 --> 02:03:07,120
Speaker 1: limb and say it might be Super Bowl kind of numbers,

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02:03:07,560 --> 02:03:10,120
Speaker 1: but yeah, it might be. It might be Super Bowl

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02:03:10,200 --> 02:03:13,200
Speaker 1: kind of numbers. NFL drafts coming up a three weeks

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02:03:13,240 --> 02:03:15,480
Speaker 1: from tomorrow is around one, all right, NFL two or

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02:03:15,520 --> 02:03:20,640
Speaker 1: false Chiefs Ravens will be the best rivalry in twenty twenty.

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02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 1: Let me think about that for a minute. Will it

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02:03:23,200 --> 02:03:25,520
Speaker 1: in fact be the best rivalry next year? The Kansas

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02:03:25,560 --> 02:03:28,560
Speaker 1: City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens could be. It'll be

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02:03:28,640 --> 02:03:31,160
Speaker 1: one of the better ones. But I don't know if

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02:03:31,160 --> 02:03:33,360
Speaker 1: there's other rivalries you'd have to keep an eye on,

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02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:35,600
Speaker 1: aren't there. I mean, I think the forty nine ers

2450
02:03:35,720 --> 02:03:37,440
Speaker 1: have their hands fold with a couple of teams in

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02:03:37,480 --> 02:03:41,520
Speaker 1: the NFC West. Those are the big rivalries. I don't

2452
02:03:41,560 --> 02:03:44,080
Speaker 1: know what about the Bill's Patriots. I think that'll be

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02:03:44,120 --> 02:03:47,960
Speaker 1: a good rivalry too. Yeah, there's a I'm trying to

2454
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:49,760
Speaker 1: think of two teams that, you know, it comes to

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02:03:49,880 --> 02:03:53,840
Speaker 1: mind for me would be Chargers Rams. I don't even

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02:03:53,880 --> 02:03:55,880
Speaker 1: know if they they probably won't even face each other,

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02:03:56,040 --> 02:03:59,080
Speaker 1: but Chargers Rams might be in a new stadium if

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02:03:59,120 --> 02:04:01,880
Speaker 1: they played, I don't think they do, so that's kind

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02:04:01,880 --> 02:04:05,640
Speaker 1: of off the table. Las Vegas. Do they lose some

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02:04:05,760 --> 02:04:08,240
Speaker 1: of their luster or gain some because they're in a

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02:04:08,320 --> 02:04:11,880
Speaker 1: new stadium in a new city with Denver coming in

2462
02:04:12,040 --> 02:04:16,640
Speaker 1: like that? Are they closer to Arizona or further away

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02:04:16,720 --> 02:04:18,640
Speaker 1: from Arizona than they used to be in Oakland? I

2464
02:04:18,680 --> 02:04:21,840
Speaker 1: think they're very pretty close. Arizona, La or Las Vegas

2465
02:04:21,920 --> 02:04:26,760
Speaker 1: could become a real rivalry in the Desert. I don't

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02:04:26,800 --> 02:04:29,880
Speaker 1: know though, for the current state of the NFL. With

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and Pat Mahomes the last two MVPs, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what, I'm gonna watch that game, that's for sure.

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02:04:37,560 --> 02:04:39,680
Speaker 1: That's for sure. So I might have to say true

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02:04:39,800 --> 02:04:42,520
Speaker 1: just for this year, all right, that'll do NFL Tour

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Speaker 1: False brought to you by Yantes Fancy, New York's artist

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Speaker 1: in chiefs got a break. Here We're coming back. One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bills

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Speaker 1: Radio Time. Now for what have we learned from today's show?

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02:05:02,760 --> 02:05:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment

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Speaker 1: rental company of the Buffalo Bills. What have we learned?

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02:05:08,200 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 1: We int Sam Monson on from propofol Focus. He says

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Speaker 1: the Bills wide receiver group is the best in the

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Speaker 1: NFL with the acquisition of Stefan Diggs. Here's Sam Monson. Yeah,

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02:05:18,440 --> 02:05:21,160
Speaker 1: I mean I liked the guys that they had brought

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02:05:21,240 --> 02:05:23,520
Speaker 1: in a year ago, Beasley and John Brown. I think

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02:05:23,560 --> 02:05:25,760
Speaker 1: that they were getting the right type of receiver, and

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02:05:25,800 --> 02:05:27,680
Speaker 1: then you bring in a Stefon Diggs and it just

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02:05:27,800 --> 02:05:31,720
Speaker 1: catapults that group to a completely different level. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd always kind of thought that Stefon Diggs was a

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02:05:34,200 --> 02:05:37,600
Speaker 1: very good player anyway, and just from diving into the

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02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:41,160
Speaker 1: research and hey to do this article, if anything, my

2488
02:05:41,280 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: opinion of him only went up. I mean, he is

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02:05:43,480 --> 02:05:46,400
Speaker 1: good at everything you need to be a wide receiver.

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02:05:46,640 --> 02:05:49,280
Speaker 1: And if you look at his production, there's sort of

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02:05:49,320 --> 02:05:52,920
Speaker 1: the relative lack of production compared with you know, superstars

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02:05:52,960 --> 02:05:55,680
Speaker 1: like Julio Jones or DeAndre Hopkins or the guys as

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02:05:55,680 --> 02:05:58,680
Speaker 1: a very thought of the NFL is. I don't think

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02:05:58,720 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 1: the reason that he's at that level is anything due

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02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:04,320
Speaker 1: to him. I think it's just because he's been in

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02:06:04,400 --> 02:06:09,760
Speaker 1: a run first offense in Minnesota. Oh, there you go,

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02:06:09,880 --> 02:06:13,040
Speaker 1: that's Sam Monson. I don't know if I'm not saying

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02:06:13,080 --> 02:06:15,000
Speaker 1: they don't have the best wide receiver group, but that's

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02:06:15,040 --> 02:06:17,480
Speaker 1: the kind of a wide, sweeping statement Steeve t Asker

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02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:20,320
Speaker 1: that I think has made when you're bored and you're

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02:06:20,360 --> 02:06:24,360
Speaker 1: trying to find something right, you know, he said top three.

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02:06:24,480 --> 02:06:26,640
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't acknowledge that maybe Tampa Bay's got

2503
02:06:26,720 --> 02:06:28,880
Speaker 1: a better one two punch than the Bills. But when

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02:06:28,920 --> 02:06:31,040
Speaker 1: you drop it down and go to either Cole Beasley

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02:06:31,080 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: or John Brown behind Steph Diggs and Cole Beasley or

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02:06:34,200 --> 02:06:36,400
Speaker 1: John Brown, the top three of those guys in Buffalo,

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02:06:36,840 --> 02:06:38,400
Speaker 1: you'd be hard pressed to do it. And he also

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02:06:38,480 --> 02:06:40,360
Speaker 1: made a good point about this. The strength of those

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Speaker 1: three guys and Beasley, Brown and Diggs is their ability

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02:06:44,400 --> 02:06:48,320
Speaker 1: to get separation and for a quarterback like Josh Allen

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02:06:49,720 --> 02:06:53,040
Speaker 1: that speaks volumes about the Bills desire to give him

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02:06:53,120 --> 02:06:55,160
Speaker 1: guys that make the windows bigger for him to fit

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02:06:55,200 --> 02:06:57,040
Speaker 1: it in. So I think it's it's it's a great

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02:06:57,120 --> 02:07:00,800
Speaker 1: point by him, and certainly they've got a lot to

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02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:04,440
Speaker 1: prove before anybody else is going to say that other

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02:07:04,520 --> 02:07:09,560
Speaker 1: than Sam Monson, but certainly you can see his reasoning. Yeah,

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02:07:09,760 --> 02:07:11,920
Speaker 1: we had on the tweet sheet, we had a response

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Speaker 1: to that from Carmack who says it's I kind of

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Speaker 1: believe this. He says, it's interesting slash him using watching

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Speaker 1: the AFC East arms race Miami and Buffalo really going

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Speaker 1: for it since in a gap, if the season goes ahead,

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Speaker 1: the East might be fascinating. I think he's right about that, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't look, I think And Joe Corey, I think

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Speaker 1: called him an odds on favorite, the Bills an odds

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Speaker 1: on favorite to win the AFC East, and I felt

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Speaker 1: like I felt like saying, wait a minute, we nobody's

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Speaker 1: saying there an odds on favorite, aren't they I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that. I think it's going to be a dog

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Speaker 1: fight for the Bills and the Patriots and maybe the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins will even cause some damage. What do you think, Steve, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very early. Certainly, everybody except for maybe the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: feels like they're better now than they were three months ago.

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Speaker 1: The Bills feel like Dave at least maintained, if not

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Speaker 1: gotten better. Certainly offensively, they've got to feel really good

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Speaker 1: about where they're sitting. Defensively, you can say, okay, well

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Speaker 1: they got three new defensive linemen in the rotation. You

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Speaker 1: don't know how those guys are gonna fit or maybe

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Speaker 1: it's or what happened, but on at least from the

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Speaker 1: paper trail, it looks like they made some really good

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Speaker 1: moves that kept them at the top of the league.

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Speaker 1: So all of those teams, the Dolphins and the Bills,

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02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:24,720
Speaker 1: have got to feel like they're better. And with the

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Speaker 1: Patriots win in twelve games last year with a really

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02:08:28,440 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 1: poor offense but a fantastic defense, and then losing all

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Speaker 1: their defensive stars or three or four their starters on defense,

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02:08:36,080 --> 02:08:38,600
Speaker 1: and losing Tom Brady on the offense, you gotta think, man,

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02:08:38,680 --> 02:08:41,520
Speaker 1: that gap is nowhere to be found anymore. So it's

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Speaker 1: gonna I'm with you, Murph, I and I've long said

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Speaker 1: that the Patriots are not going completely away. They're gonna

2550
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Speaker 1: be a handful for teams next year as well as

2551
02:08:48,440 --> 02:08:51,600
Speaker 1: they have been for twenty years. But Tom Brady's not there,

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Speaker 1: and that's gonna be interesting to see how that closes

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Speaker 1: the gap between the Bills, the Dolphins, the Jets, and

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. Got an interesting show owning up Tomorrow, sum

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Speaker 1: Penaltonio of ESPN will join us at one o'clock. JC

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Speaker 1: Tretter now the new president of the NFL Players Association.

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Speaker 1: You have quite a familiarity with him, right, Stevie was

2558
02:09:11,080 --> 02:09:13,400
Speaker 1: your son's roommate at Cornell years ago. Yeah, the Hill

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02:09:13,480 --> 02:09:16,480
Speaker 1: Conker and JC were four year roommates. Know him well.

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02:09:16,920 --> 02:09:19,000
Speaker 1: And Brandon Bean schedule to join us tomorrow. We'll have

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Speaker 1: a specially announcement about a coronavirus way to help the

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Speaker 1: local effort to battle coronavirus the epidemic. They'll be joining

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Speaker 1: us at about two o'clock tomorrow, so it should be

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Speaker 1: a good show. Steve looking forward to it tomorrow, He too,

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Speaker 1: look forward to Murph this. I don't want to say

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Speaker 1: this was the highlight of my debuting with you, but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't as bad, you know, it wasn't you know.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty good given what I have to do the

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Speaker 1: rest of the day, which is nothing. Our production assistance

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Speaker 1: today George Blast, Jeff Colton, Mick Thomas, Hommelder, Kelly Rude,

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Speaker 1: jj Teredo, Kevin Carters, James Roebel, Brayton Wilton, Brayton Wilson,

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Speaker 1: and Joe De Bias our producer Jay Harris. We're back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow at noon with One Bill's Live, presented by Collie

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Speaker 1: to Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.